CLEMATIS ERECTA
Flammula Jovis.
Upright Virgin’s Bower, Traveller’s Joy. N.O. Ranunculaceae.
Tincture of leaves and stems.
THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES
Clematis is a closed up individual, who keeps everything inside without confessing to anybody, he has no real friend to confide in, while at the same time his great fear is that he will be accused of some wrongdoing. This fear goes so deep into his subconscious mind that many of his dreams have this theme, that somebody will point him out as a wrongdoer and he will be arrested, that some one will accuse him of something that is not true.
This is something that hounds him all the time, but it is not obvious, not clear in his conscious mind, it is like background music. We have to understand the kind of anxiety that goes on inside such a patient: a mild anxiety from some guilt, that never leaves him, but it is not strong enough to come to the conscious mind as something concrete. If it comes, then it produces a state of moral contrition and the whole organism goes into a state of violent outbreaks of exhausting weeping, with trembling all over the body.
Clematis is an individual who will be easily aroused sexually, will have many different affairs, and for this reason will easily catch venereal diseases, especially gonorrhoea; will masturbate if he cannot find an outlet; will have extra-marital sexual affairs but he himself, in his conscious mind will not feel that he is doing anything
wrong, he will not feel consciously guilty. He seems to have no feelings of morality, but on a subconscious level it is a different story.