ABSTRACT
The pattern of the patient’s emotional relationship to his father has been re-experienced within his analytical sessions using the analyst as the new object or father-image in this relationship. He has passed through the whole gamut of this relationship from the time when he played trains, from the time when he sobbed and, most vividly, to the time when he encountered frustration of his whole object-libido and experienced his repressed hate impulses. He has seen that his unconscious expectations of gratification with this father-image were responsible for his initial enthusiasms, and, recognizing this, he has seen further that there is no hope in reality even on a merely mental plane of consummating this infantile love affair. The truth has been painfully borne home to him. Despite all resistance on the part of the pleasure-principle he has at last been forced to accept the facts.
