ABSTRACT
It sometimes occurs that analysands have to resist the inclination to pass a clearly audible and also noticeable amount of flatus in the course of the hour; this usually happens when they are being refractory with the doctor. This symptom, however, is intended not only to insult the doctor but to intimate that the patient intends to allow himself things that his father forbade him, but permitted himself. The licence referred to here represents all the prerogatives which parents arrogate to themselves but strictly deny to their children, and which the patient now wishes to appropriate for himself.
