ABSTRACT
RELIEF? “ Ah, Hajji, whither wilt thou turn, when thou art there, when thou art there ? ” When the hour of shock comes, failure of plans and hopes, wounds in the love-life, reverse of fortune, or any other shattering experience, and naked anxiety confronts the subject, to what will he turn ? Anxiety is described by the poet as “ this ghost-life’s piercing phantom-pain.” 1
The words at the head of the chapter, “ the perfecting life." are what a dream-subject had in mind on awaking one morning ; they were all that survived of what was probably an important dream.
