ABSTRACT
The twenty-three-year-old patient was referred to Dr Lebovici by Dr Mignot with the following note: This patient experiences, without genuine anxiety yet with intensity, the feeling of being physically laughable and this results in fact in an extremely troubling inhibition. The development of the drives seemed to have taken this subject up to the Oedipal stage, but this stage seemed largely impregnated by pre-genital pathogenic fixations, in particular sado-masochistic ones. Yves is an only child. The grandfather also disapproved of his son for not having studied, being without ambition and being content with a modest income. The patient regularly came to Paris twice a week for two consecutive sessions and a third session separate from the two others. Because of this arrangement, he had to spend one night in Paris. Friends of his parents, who lived in the Paris suburbs, were happy to put him up.
