How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

towards life, this attitude may be expressed by any single organ or organ system. When organic deficiencies sufficient to cause an inferiority complex exist, these very organ systems may become the loud-speakers, so to speak, of the total personality. The individual’s “ No 1 is expressed then in the unhealthy functioning of this defective organ system. This is clearly demonstrated in the case of a man, thirty-five years old, who has an inferiority complex because of various unfortunate conditioning factors in his childhood, whose most obvious expression is to be found in his fear of woman. This man, an intelligent lawyer, recognizes intellectually that he ought to be married. He comes to the psychiatrist complaining of impotence, bitterly protesting that he would like to be married if it were not for his unfortunate ailment. This man is saying 44 No ! ” to the problem of sexual adjustment, not in so many words, but in an organic language, an “ organ-jargon of his sexual organs. The differential ^diagnosis between a real physical ailment and an expression of the inferiority complex in bodily symptoms is often to be found in those little words, 44 but ” or 44 if , which demonstrate to those who understand human nature that the individual^ has an underlying inclination to evade the problems of life and to shift the responsibility to phenomena which are seemingly beyond his control. Other physical symptoms of the inferiority complex which are frequently encountered are headaches, migraine, 44 nervous indigestion,” asthma, palpitation of the heart ; the vague fatigue, loss of appetite, and geneial malaise, which used to be called neurasthenia and psychasthenia. Impotence and premature ejaculation in men ; frigidity, painful menstruation, and painful inter¬ course in women ; vomiting, asthma, tics, grimaces, bed-wetting, and night terrors in children ; insomnia, ‘‘nerves” and panic, the fear of old age, death, cancer, tuberculosis, or syphilis, together with the profession of “ being healthy ” or “ being sick ” are additional symptoms of the inferiority complex in adults. To be