[Reflexions and thoughts about one case of acromegalic gigantism (author's transl)]

Having observed a 22 year old man with a case of acromegalic-gigantism (2,30 m.) whose growth still continued after the ablation of a hypophyseal micro-adenoma, by trans-sphenoidale tract, the authors after making various neuroendocrine comments study from a psychological point of view the myth of the giant which appears to be linked to the myth of origins, from a phylogentical point of view (for example Atlantis) as well as from the ontogenetical point of view (identification to the father). The example is particularly ambivalent: at the same time idealized (the Heros), and rejected (the Ogre)--this is explained by the evolution of the father complex, and by the connections between, on the one hand the ego, and on the other hand the ideal ego and the couple ego ideal-super ego.