ABSTRACT
When a small child is frightened its mother places it on the chamber and tells it to urinate. The child then quietens visibly and stops crying. Undoubtedly the child is here offered a libido reward similar to that given him at other times in the form of sweets or other eatables. That micturition should discharge the affect of fright so sucessfully may be due to the fact that it provides for the child a sudden relief (pleasure) adequate to the suddenness of the fright.
