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(At 6:00 AM Jane woke me to say that she was in the grip of an extremely painful stiff neck. By the time we obtained treatment for it the time was close to noon, so it seemed there would be no session this evening, or at most a few words from Seth acknowledging the seriousness of Jane’s predicament.

(Sunday, and until late at night, Jane had been reading The Winthrop Woman, a book about American colonial life in the 1600’s by Anya Seton. Last night she was unable to get to sleep, thinking about the book, and surmised that in some way the book had roused her subconsciously. Jane had forgotten it, she said, but now thought that upon reading the same book a few months ago, she had also developed neck trouble, although not to as severe a degree. The book dealt extensively with the sufferings of women in childbirth, and their lot in general, in those days.

(By 8:30 PM Jane felt a little better but obviously was in no condition for a session. On the chance that Seth might speak briefly I readied my note paper. We waited. Even by 8:55 Jane still had no idea whether she would hear from Seth.

Ruburt is not quite with me this evening because of his condition, and it was this conflict that was sensed by your cat. Ruburt’s condition is improving, however, and there is nothing to worry you here in any important manner, though Ruburt of course is most uncomfortable. In the interim I have succeeded, as you might notice, in straightening him out to some degree.

I am extremely sorry that Ruburt feels so badly, and I will do what I can to help. My dear friends, I wish you a fond good evening; and may I mention briefly that you were right, Joseph; your last experience with psychological time was most significant. And Ruburt had also tuned in on the same conversation, but had already begun to tense, and therefore was blocking every psychological stimulus in the hopes of blocking out the right one. Unfortunately, he blocked out all of this except the right one.

Incidentally, the book that Ruburt was reading did have something to do with bringing on his condition, and involved a morbid fascination on his part, bringing out many old resentments. I will not keep you longer. The information will prove just as beneficial at a later date.

(End at 9:09. Jane said Seth could have gone on, and that she was tempted to try to hold the session. She was not very much dissociated. Willy bothered her immediately, she said; yet at the same time she was more dissociated than she had thought possible under the circumstances.

I would add one brief note for Ruburt’s edification. Surely he must be aware that his mother’s characteristic pose in bed was one that necessitated a complete turning of the upper body, whenever she wished to look one way or the other; and that her neck, because of her arthritis, could not turn normally.

Psychologically you will find this principle quite sound; symbolically, the fearful attempt to become part of the feared individual, and therefore escape the venom that might be directed outward. These feelings were rearoused by Ruburt’s reading of the book, where childbirth was depicted as causing the mother great agony.

I am giving this material now, rather than later, as I said I would, because I could tell that Ruburt would clamp up on me, as far as this particular subject is concerned, after the pain was gone, and block this material.

(End at 9:25. Jane was more dissociated during this last delivery, although still conscious of her very sore neck. She also felt that somehow Seth had overridden her to some degree in order to get the material through. Jane said she had cringed, mentally, at Seth’s use of the word infantile. She also felt a little better at the end of the brief session.)