‘difficult adventure of birth,’ and conclude that the child at birth must undergo a great shock of fright. Today one of the scientific terms of psychology is ‘birth terror’ Certainly, it is not a conscious terror, but if his conscious psychic faculties were developed, he would express himself by bitter words: “Why have you thrown me into this terrible world? What can I do? How shall I be able to adapt myself to a life which is so different from my own?

