A case is presented which serves to apply Freud's postulates of the importance of pre-oedipal sexuality in women to a certain type of male characterized by oral passivity to objects, narcissism and genital impotence that is refractory to psycho-analysis. The patient came for treatment because of chronic invalidism, complete inhibition of initiative and marked erotic dysfunction. Little evidence was found that real genitality had ever existed, and all the pregenital drives seemed all almost on a par. Apparently there had never been a complete fusion of pregenital desires into genital aims. The typical Oedipus phantasy brought out was a desire to urinate like his father. This was the one erotized form of aggressive instinct.

The problem of the analysis had to do with the inhibition of aggression. This was not solved by the conversion of the somatic complaints back into