ABSTRACT
Thomas Woodrow Wilson at the age of twenty-one was a formed character. Wilson's immoderate Super-Ego, which demanded from him the impossible, was alone enough to condemn him to lifelong discontent, and the excessive quantity of libido which charged his passivity to his father demanded outlets difficult to find and to retain. The increase in Wilson's self-confidence during his sophomore year enabled him to step forward as a leader among his fellows at Princeton and to form a number of normal, unpassionate friendships. He also entered into a relationship with Charles Talcott which differed from his attachment to Brooke in the particular that Wilson was older than his friend. In December 1880, when he was twenty-four, Wilson's habitual indigestion and headaches became so severe that he had to leave the University of Virginia without a degree, and return to his father's Manse to be nursed.
