94 CASE HISTORIES 



Heart normal. Superficial reflexes all present. Deep reflexes 

 slightly hyperactive. 



Endocrine diagnosis: Hypoadrenia. 



Glandular therapy: None. He was transferred to another 

 hospital before treatment could be begun. 



Mental diagnosis: Schizophrenia with projection and fea- 

 tures of circular insanity. 



One can see that this man had long had an incestuous love 

 for his mother, when one considers his getting erections at seeing 

 her legs as a boy and adolescent, his distress following his find- 

 ing her in coitus with his father, his resistance towards his wife 

 after she became the mother of a son, his present fantasies of 

 incest and impotence and his attempt to look hairy and virile like 

 his father. The long fear of impotence was probably caused by 

 the realization that his cravings were directed toward a forbidden 

 object. Homosexual cravings were also present. 



His alternating periods of happy normality and depressed 

 dullness and confusion were like quick-changing circular insanity. 

 His different levels of sexual thought are interesting. In his 

 clear, alert periods his sex attitude seemed fairly normal, in 

 moderate depressions he was in the CEdipus-homosexual stage, 

 in deep depressions his thinking became archaic with bisexual 

 monsters and metamorphoses. 



Tocci 



History: He was a wiry, delicately built little Italian with 

 almost feminine agility and grace, but surprisingly strong. His 

 age was twenty-five. In Italy he had only three years of school- 

 ing, after which he worked as a farm laborer, tailor and shoe- 

 maker. At seventeen he came to America to see the world, and 

 wandered from city to city working as a shoemaker. He went 

 to night school to learn English but still spoke it so badly that he 

 was very hard to understand. He felt lonely and unhappy in 

 this country. " I was sorry to be alone, far away from my family, 

 and disturbed not to see my people. They told me not to 

 worry but I worried all the time. If I got sick, who would take 

 care of me?" He suffered much from headaches. 



