Pansexualism

I have never maintained the assertion which has so often been ascribed to me that dream-interpreta-characteristics: They suffer from megalomania and they have withdrawn their interest from the external world (people and things).

The libido that is liberated by frustration does not remain attached to objects in phantasy, but returns to the ego; the megalomania then represents the mastery of this volume of libido, and thus corresponds with the introversion on to the phantasy-creations that is found in the transference neuroses; the hypochondria of paraphrenia, which is homologous to the anxiety of the transference neuroses, arises from a failure of this effort in the mental apparatus.