“My mother was everything to me, she was my one best friend, the _alpha_ and _omega_ of my existence. I had built many pretty plans for her, desiring to make her comfortable in her old age.... Then, there came the terrible catastrophe, which nearly wiped out my whole existence, death robbed me of my much-beloved mother. The report of her illness, which made me fear the worst, found me in the North of Ireland and the tortures which I endured during the two days and two nights that it took me to reach home, could not be described in mere words. On the train folks avoided me suspecting that I was insane.... For three weary weeks I took care of my mother day and night, then God took her from me, and I remained a lonely wanderer, broken in mind and body. It was a blow from which I could never recover. In the endeavor to forget I returned to my England to take up my former work but it was useless. Forget I could not, day and night I was a prey to mental and physical suffering. I could not stand it any longer. So I returned to the old home where my people had lived for 100 years. Sometimes I was nearly insane and felt a little more quiet only when visiting the cemetery and hovering around my parents’ resting place. Unable to find peace I decided to travel. In the churches and cathedrals of every City and in the chapels of every village through which I passed I prayed to God for the soul of my beloved mother. The gnawing anguish in my heart over the death of my beloved mother had shattered my nerves all to pieces.... I felt myself paralyzed on account of my deep depression, I could no longer think, I fell into melancholy although I sometimes tried to rouse myself. I abandoned all correspondence because no one could write me a consoling word. When the world which existed between mother and myself shattered, life ceased to have any interest for me.” The relationship of the urlind to the father and of the urning to the mother _Hirschfeld_ summarizes in the following table: I. _Urning boy_ _Urlind girl_ Prefers girls’ games, avoids Prefers boys’ games, dislikes characteristic boys’ games, has handwork, confections, is many girlish features in his ‘boy-like’ in behavior, in acts character and behavior, Sometimes and, often, in appearance. also in his appearance. Observers Remark: “She is like a boy!” remark: “He is like a girl.” II. _Attitude towards the other sex_ Prefers the company of girls. Preferably plays rough games with boys. Emotional fixation on the mother. Attachment greater to father. III. _Attitude towards own sex_ (as erotically colored in the unconscious) Instinctively inhibited and Greater bashfulness in the bashful in relation to boys. presence of girls.