This paper, through use of clinical excerpts, demonstrates and discusses the origins and meanings of snout-hand behavior as an example of nonverbal communication in the psychoanalysis of an adult male patient. Knowledge of the origins of such behavior in the fetal and infantile periods is useful in making a connection with data yielded in an adult analysis. The variety of meanings of nonverbal activity points to the complexity of nonverbal behavior observed in the analytic situation. The analytic method aims to change the nonverbal behavior to verbal, from repeating to remembering, and from acting out to analysis of the conflict rooted in the infantile period. Therefore, nonverbal activities of a patient are important areas for analysis in that they often contain significant neurotic meaning.