ABSTRACT
Three months after Thomas Woodrow Wilson's inauguration as President of Princeton his father died. In the customary manner, he replaced his lost father by himself and thenceforth in his unconscious he was more than ever the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Wilson could no longer find outlet for the hypertrophied charge of libido by submitting to his father, or by playing wife to his father. Moreover, after the loss of his father, he began to display increased inclination imperiously to rearrange the world and to hate with unreasonable intensity distinguished men who disagreed with him. The amount of Wilson's passivity to his father which had to be repressed after his father's death was great and it required a large reaction-formation to assist in its repression. The original source of all these character traits was, of course, little Tommy Wilson's passivity to his incomparable father. Wilson, installed as President of Princeton, began at once to dominate the life of the university.
