ABSTRACT
The observations which form the material of this communication are derived from the analysis of a patient suffering from impotence, together with anxiety-states and depression. During the analysis the people had occasion more than once to deal with a dream which appeared in various forms and which had recurred since earliest childhood, always with the same content, accompanied by the most intense anxiety. Here it is perfectly possible to displace the danger threatening from within to the outside world and so to convert neurotic into real anxiety and, by observing certain conditions, to create for oneself the pleasurable situation of a game instead of the painful situation of a phobia. The social value of sport, too, from the point of view of psychology, lies partly in the fact that, through this process of displacing the battlefield, aggressive tendencies are discharged in a manner consonant with the ego.
