ABSTRACT
This chapter describes several sessions and even interim periods between sessions in which the great masculine-looking man had sobbed his heart out in experiencing the return of his forgotten and repudiated love-life. It appeared that such a state of affairs had been enhanced through the death of his father at an age when his boyish love for him was at its height. At the time of this attachment and before the patient’s pubertal sexual development the father had died. All his longings for the dead father presently became reinforced with the development of sexuality and its sexual longings. There was no material or real father to present this developing unconscious phantasy of complete union with its reality difficulties and moral taboos. The result was that his love for father, now no more than an image, was consummated with phantasies of full sexual union.
