The subject is discussed from the standpoint of ego-psychology. When the normal person scribbles, he does it by the way, whereas the whole personality of the psychotic is engaged. Sometimes the work of the psychotic impresses one as a caricature or a gryllus does. This is because in this form of art—as always in the drawings of psychotics—the primary process has full play. But, to use a rough antithesis, in the work of the normal person the primary process comes into the service of the ego, in the work of the psychotic the primary process swamps the ego. In drawing the human face the work of psychotics shows a peculiar emptiness and rigidity. This is because the drawing is an attempt at restitution and the person drawn is the psychotic himself. It is an attempt, by projection, to regain contact with the outer world.