ABSTRACT
The crocodile dream appeared to have more effect upon the patient than had been anticipated at the time. He arrived at his next session in a happy, elated mood. The patient seems very sure that the policy of avoiding the “spoiling” of a baby by leaving it to cry itself out in a cot, a policy of which he was the victim, was the first, the most serious and traumatic, cause of the dislocation of his emotional pattern. His current emotional life, particularly that involving his relationship to the persons around him, male and female, was still lagging behind his analytical metamorphosis, but no doubt it was early to expect drastic changes. He had throughout his life been so preoccupied in dealing with males, particularly with those older than himself, father-images, that he had had little or no libido left for intimate emotional relationship with mother-images, that is to say with women.
