ABSTRACT
Neurotics who are afraid of walking in the street without being accompanied by a particular person usually suffer from a second phobia also: the fear of being alone indoors. The unconscious of patients does not permit them to be away from those on whom their libido is fixated. Any attempt by the sufferer to defy the prohibitions set up by his unconscious is visited by an anxiety state. The objection implicit in the question can easily be met. According to Sigmund Freud's theory of the neurosis, it is not the boy's wish to be with his mother who undergoes repression, but his incestuous wish for sexual possession of her. Both the remarks showed the boy's ingenuous confession of his infantile wishes. At the same time they clearly show the hallmark of repression, and it can be demonstrated that underlying the openly expressed wishes is a deeper layer of wishes which remain unexpressed.
