"Exactly. His conscience had to punish him. But Reich had never admitted to himself that he murdered because he hated D’Courtney as the father who had rejected and abandoned him. Therefore, the punishment had to take place on the unconscious level. Reich set those traps for himself without ever realizing it ... in his sleep, somnambulistically ... during the day, in short fugues ... brief departures from conscious reality. The tricks of the mind-mechanism are fantastic."