[Footnote 35: Even if marriage is at first apparently successful, it may be unable to stand the strain of circumstances which would present little or no difficulty in the absence of parent fixation. Thus in a case known to me, after a happy honeymoon spent near home, a wife proved unable to accompany her husband to a distant locality, where business affairs necessitated his residence but (in spite of his protests and entreaties) turned back while on the journey and returned to live with her parents. It appeared that she had very seldom left home before her marriage, having been brought up by kindly but indulgent parents, as regards whom there was a strong emotional fixation. In her youth she had only travelled once without her parents, being then so miserably unhappy that she begged to be sent home again as soon as possible.] [Footnote 36: _Cp._ especially Ferenczi, "Contributions to Psycho-Analysis," 250.] [Footnote 37: In the case of a woman, the record of whose analysis was kindly shown to me by Dr. E. M. Cole, there appears to have been a complete father fixation (with corresponding hatred of the mother) at one level and at a lower and more unconscious level an equally complete mother fixation (with all the indications of an "inverted" Œdipus complex), the two levels being characterised by a predominance of heterosexual and homosexual tendencies respectively.] [Footnote 38: In three cases of homosexual tendencies in men which I have recently had the opportunity of studying, the desire to be used by the father as a sexual objective was quite clearly apparent. _Cp._ Freud's "Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose." Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre. IV. 578 ff.] [Footnote 39: "Contributions to Psycho-Analysis," 250 ff.] [Footnote 40: _Cp._ Rank, "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero," 1913.] [Footnote 41: Freud, "Beiträge zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens," _Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen_, 1910, II, 389.] [Footnote 42: See Rank, _op. cit._, also the more recent treatment by the Questionnaire method by Edmund S. Conklin, "The Foster-Child Fantasy," _American Journal of Psychology_, 1920, XXXI, 59.] [Footnote 43: There can be no doubt that this is a factor of very considerable significance. The child projects on to its parents its own desires, ambitions and aspirations, thus finding compensation for the gradual realisation of its own deficiencies, limitations and want of power (in much the same way as parents in their turn find consolation for their own disappointments in contemplating the successes--real or anticipated--of their children. _Cp._ below Ch. XIV.). In this way certain of the Narcissistic impulses find displaced expression in the idealisation of the parents and the exaggeration of their powers--a factor which probably plays a part of great importance in the Psychology of Religion (_Cp._ below Ch. XIII.).