Purple flowers also distressed him. He had family conflicts and occasional sexual impotence crisis without any clear cause or physical disturbance. He had been raised as a catholic but was not a believer. Both clinical cases were accompanied for longer than ten years each and have given us precious elements for locating the omnipotence of thinking, sacredness and primitive religiosity. The space which was forbidden for him to step on or touched was a prohibition to relate.
Links are the symbol for sacredness in profane space.
Should the forbidden link be disrespected, he would cause his mother's death. The profane place the dark or black stain manifests the sacred by means of a symbol of the supernatural, which has the power to let live or to kill. It is the omnipotence of thinking of a primitive mind. The material that is being defended are the unconscious destructive impulses of the primitive omnipotent mind. Impulses towards life and love, which bring about tolerance to frustration, altruism, gratitude, forgiveness and so on, in his case were not sufficiently developed and thus did not contain destructive feelings such as intolerance to frustration, hatred, envy and unconscious wishes of revenge.