Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-08-07
Across the Table
by william, H. Huff


attached to the wolf is deeply masochistic. That
type OF woman wants to be disappointed and re-
iected. Therefore she seeks out men WHO nav a
reputation of being the kind that no woman can
hold for good She bargains unconsclOusly Ior the
disappointment and gets it with the greatest q
regularity.
81 once an:!yzed a woman in her forties, for
fypoC hOndriacal complaints. Asked about her sex
life she acted surprised and Informed me that al
men were lmpotent In answer to my objection that
her statement constituted a slight eXaggeratloh,
she produced her dairies, kept during the last
quarter Of century. She had every lover catalogu-
ed and described in terse and pungent terms. She
had reached d figure high in the sixties. | askd
her whether she could cOncede at least one eX-
ception proving the rule Of her (unconsciously de-
liberate) choice Glad to oblige you, doc, nothing
doing Th all impotent' I'VE finally found
one. exception: She left that man AFTER the
first night because he SO brutal.
What is the unconscious structure Of the neu-
rotic male popularity called wolf?
",The wolf is contradictory as it may sound)
an impoteEt man who conceas that bitter TACT
from himself and others by constantly exchanging
We're he to stay for any length OF time with
one women, he, the great seducer, would pc proven
mpotent IN unconscious preventative actlon,
therefore, he does allow the situation 10 arise;
he is through with each woman before his tlasco
becomes apparent. But his disgust with her IS
simply an unconscious acknowledgements OF the
potency disturbance around the corner.
IF we analyze this type OF neurotc we Ilnu
usually an uncOnscOusy passive feminine man
with an inflated psuedo-aggressive defense mech-
anism. Even if the negative Oedipus complX had
not been discovered by Freud forty years ago, ev-
eryy beginner in the art Of psychOanalysls cOuld
find that inner constellation in wolves. The mega
tive Oedipus complex i man denotes unconscl-
Identification with the mother, the wish TO be
passively overwhelmed sexually by the father.
This wish produces severe veto from the Supr-
ego making it necessary to establish defense.
The frantic defense mechanism set up is con-
tmptucus and pseudo-agressive attitude toward
women. That defense, however, is built on shaky
grounds hence it works only for short while
and has to be re-established time and time again.
The result is visible in the mans constant need
to increase his scalp collection OF "seduced Wo-
men, The VOLTS internal bogeyman, impotence,
follows him like his shadow the passiVe-fem1n1ne
wishes kept in repression, are constantly ready
to break loose and enguf the caricature Of the
super-he-man The alleged seducer is in dangr
of being seduced by his own innre femln1ty
'The wolf type Of neurotic has great similarity
to the man whom the wolf disparages most: Cas-
par Miquetoast. Miquetoast is also passlVe-te-
minnie man, the VOLTS brother under the SKIN.
Milquetoast, however, is incapable OF building up
the VOLTS inflated defense He typically marries
shrew god digger who mistreats him. Mique-
toast protests SUFFERS but clings to his tormen
tor precisely because she satisfied HI wish TO be
passively overwhelmed.
"Outwardys the wolf and MilQuetoast are
oppostes. Still, they carved from t1e same
wood. If VOLTS defense collopses because OF the
progress of his Eeurosis under the prodding OF
external events such as financial disaster, the
weakling to the fore. There is no more
pitiful spectacle than a fallen wolf.
"The wolf type Of neurotic constantly assures
people that he has found the real formula for n
ioyment of life. But if you the wolf stripped Of
his "conqueror pretenses, you are confronted with
a depressed neurotic. The wolf knows that, uncon-
sciously. Positive proof Of this is to be found in
his choice Of women. He seeks always the easy
prey; the dissatisfied frigid woman. With her he
can maintain the illusion Of conquest Actually Of
course he does rot conquer~her; she simply uses
him for of her endless eXperimnts in finding
the cure for her frigidity. saw such
who became deeply depressed when a frigid wo-
man told him cOntemptuously after unsuccess-
full affair: You couldn't satisfy any more than
your predecessors did, You're a sexual washout'
Another peurotic Of this type entered treat
ment saying, Once in my life | made the mistake
take OF attaching mypself to lady surrounded
with the aura of sexual correctness and unapp-
roachability. She rejected me with contempt This
awakened the hunter instinct in and l pursued
her relentlessly. Her mo- made sick that's ALL