The analysis of a man between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty is reported. He had been treated previously between the ages of nineteen and twenty-eight by six analysts.

When he was six his parents quarrelled and separated, and a strict governess who punished him frequently took the place of his mother till he was fourteen. At that age he had been a few weeks in hospital in a state of severe anxiety thinking that eyes were looking at him in the dark. At nineteen just after beginning studies in engineering he became disinterested and idle, and henceforth was unable to continue his University work. During the next years he was not able to do more than simple clerical work.