ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an application of established psychoanalytic principles with a view to gaining an understanding of the clinical picture. The psychology of the development of language from the source can be deduced from the resemblance between the fertilization of the soil and the sexual fertilization of animals and man. Psychoanalytic theory would seem to have a ready explanation to offer for the occurrence of anxiety in the toxicoses. When the libidinal tension is at its height anxiety steps in, indicating inhibition of the dreamt-of wish. Alcoholic occupation delirium should be regarded as a coitus-wish delirium strictly analogous to the occupation dream, and its appearance in the form of a fear-of-impotence delirium accords with the sexual set up of the patient. Alcoholism following physiological impotence due to advancing age belongs to the same category.
