"The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams is a short story written from the point of view of a physician that encounters a child, who is unwilling to have her throat examined. What starts out as a routine examination quickly turns extremely violent. The girl strikes the first blow by knocking the doctor's glasses off and closes her mouth firmly. As the struggle ensues the doctor becomes more and more fired up. He seems to be truly enjoying the violence, though he never fully looses control of himself and is still able to address the parents in a professional manner. The terms in which the struggle is described are reminiscent of a rape, with the completion of the examination - an allegory for the orgasm. The story uses very sexual language to describe the struggle, the doctor even describes himself as "longing for muscular release" at one point. In the end his guilt of enjoying the process of inflicting pain on the child is subdued when he finds that the girl is truly sick and in danger. This story was written in 1933 when the field of psychology was quickly gaining popularity with Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic approach that is heavily rooted in sexual and violent themes at different stages of development . This story begs for a Freudian analysis of the characters and their interaction.