ABSTRACT
Thomas Woodrow Wilson remains, even to his biographers and intimates, a character of contradictions, an enigma. Wilson was, indeed, complex; and it will not be easy to discover the clue to the unity underlying the apparent contradictions of his character. Wilson was, after all, a human being, subject to the same laws of psychic development as other men; and the universality of the laws has been proved by the psychoanalysis of innumerable individuals. The libido first stores itself in love of self: Narcissism. When the primary phase of pure Narcissism has been lived through and the love-objects have begun to play their role, the libido begins to charge three accumulators: Narcissism, masculinity and femininity. The primary love-objects the child finds are his mother and father or their substitutes. The libido of the child first discharges itself through the passive relationships.
