ABSTRACT

The outlets employed by Thomas Woodrow Wilson's Ego for his passivity to his father were all outlets approved by his Super-Ego. Throughout Wilson's life much of his libido found outlet by way of speech-making. A portion of Wilson's passivity to his father found outlet through direct submission to his father; but the submission which, in his unconscious, he desired to make was far more profound and specific than the submission he was able to make in life. In later life Thomas Woodrow Wilson always needed to have at least one affectionate relationship with a younger and physically smaller man, preferably blond. Wilson's intense friendships were characterized by just manifestations. Another outlet for Wilson's passivity to his father was his identification of himself with Jesus Christ. This identification probably was established in his early childhood as a correlative to his identification of his father with God; but it seems not to have accumulated a large charge of libido until his adolescence.