ABSTRACT
The deeper causes of the singular manifestation, like many other characteristics of the neurotic, become comprehensible to readers if compared with the behaviour of children. Psychoanalysis could prove that the son's hostile and rebellious attitude towards his father was expressed in this greatly mitigated form. Among other relevant material the patient recalled that in his early childhood his grandfather, who already lived in retirement, had always seemed to him like a dethroned god, such as Kronos. Psycho-analysis teaches us the numerous pathways taken by neurotic phantasies in order to neutralise the power of the father- or mother-complex. The most far-reaching of these consists of phantasies of elimination. It is well known that neurosis can express death-wishes against either the father or the mother in many ways. The patient's most intense anger was connected with an event, which had originally caused him the most intense excitement, that is to say, witnessing the primal scene between his parents.
