A case has been described in which a fragment of an analysis dealing with the patient's postural activity and body movements while on the couch was highlighted and presented as the central theme. I have endeavored to show how visual observation and timely analytic interpretation of the postural activity served to bring about meaningful communication with the therapist in an analytic situation which for a prolonged period had been characterized by frequent periods of silence, difficulty in remembering, restricted verbalization and a repetitive postural pattern.

I should like now to make some comments on the relationship between postural activity and the processes of acting out, verbalizing and remembering. In order to point up more explicitly in terms of ego function what I believe to be the metapsychological relationship between postural activity, acting out and thinking (verbalizing and remembering) within the framework of the therapeutic process, I have introduced the concept of "acting in." I