A twenty-eight-year-old married male with bisexual behavior developed a recurrence of a peptic ulcer in the course of psychoanalytic treatment. Under the impact of the transference neurosis resomatization took place and brought into sharp focus a recapitulation of his inadequate, infantile symbiotic relationship with his mother. This had facilitated the development and maintenance of a negative oedipal involvement with a maternal father.

By way of homosexuality he expressed his ever-present need to merge with the "mothering" father, and through him with the mother. Homosexuality provided temporary emotionally nurturing objects and part objects. The repetitive pleas for love, the insatiable desire to suck and be sucked, to wish to eat and be eaten, the pseudohallucinatory invocation of the analyst's presence