ABSTRACT
From the autumn of 1883 onward Thomas Woodrow Wilson possessed an outlet for his activity toward his mother and his passivity to her. At the same time, however, he abandoned the outlet his Ego had chosen for his activity toward his father. He persuaded himself that by becoming an authority on political questions, he might influence political thought and enter political life by the side door. But anyone in authority over Wilson remained to him always a father representative and thus offered an outlet for his repressed hostility to his actual father. Woodrow Wilson took his newly married bride to a college for girls, at Bryn Mawr, and commenced his work as an instructor in history. The reader contemplating all the nervous unhappiness in the life of a young married man who had a charming home and the esteem of Bryn Mawr may perhaps be tempted to conclude that his relations with his wife did not give him satisfaction.
