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Proper Deformity Shows Not in the Fiend
So Horrid As In Woman
—Albany to Goneril, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 2
WHEN WE CONSIDER THE RESULTS of our analytic interventions, the essential question is whether there has been a proper resolution of the basic conflict; whether it has been either modified or decathected for a variety of reasons or dictated by external events.
In this paper, which is the first of a series of longitudinal studies of child analytic cases that have a follow-up through various phases of adolescence or adulthood, I would like to present a patient where metapsychological considerations essentially determined termination.
Clinically, Phyllis presented many unusual features. She resembled the Wolf Man's older sister (Freud, 1918). Both