ABSTRACT
Adolescence, with its manifold physical alterations, came upon Thomas Woodrow Wilson along with important changes in his environment. When he was fourteen years old, his father gave up his pastorate in Augusta and became a professor in a Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina. Wilson was adolescent, and adolesence is the period which connects childhood and manhood. Adolescence seems to have produced a somewhat exceptional increase in Wilson's masculinity; and he offers an example of the importance of time in considering psychic phenomena. When Wilson's increased masculinity first came into conflict with his passivity to his father, his Ego sought the usual escapes. Wilson's aggressive activity toward his father was so feeble during his childhood that it seems to have been completely consumed by the maintenance of his Super-Ego. There are many bits of evidence which indicate that Wilson's identification of himself with Christ first became the accumulator of a great charge of libido at the time of his conversion.
