ABSTRACT
From the minor clues of the patient’s present-day attitudes towards his analyst this chapter uncovers not only the great intensity of feeling once experienced towards his father. But also the infinitely more important original form of these emotional patterns in their nascent state as they were first called into being in his relationship to his original love-object, the mother of his babyhood. The persistent infantile patterns, now clearly recognized as mother-fixations rather than father-fixations, were again and again experienced during analysis towards his analyst until the working through of them eventually began to produce modifications. The emergence of his repressed and unconsciously incestuous mother-love was introduced, as is so often the case, by an interminable amount of dream material. For instance, he dreamt that he was with a very attractive woman dressed only in a little negligee.
