The healthy as well as the neurotic find enforced waiting difficult, but the healthy strive after the actual aim, and the neurotic after the defence mechanism. To the neurotic delays mean loss of the breast and a denial of love. According to the degree of regression, this is expressed on the oral, urethral, anal or phallic levels. The waiting is interpreted as proof of their own wickedness. The oral types are most endangered. The average healthy person also reacts to prolonged waiting with more or less apparently neurotic reactions. These are: internal denial, bitterness, contempt for mankind, depreciation of the aim, phantasies of revenge, doubt of rightness of one's ideas, artificial paranoia, mild alcoholic addiction out of revenge, self-degradation, resignation, and phantasies of rehabilitation. The average normal person has a greater ability to wait than the neurotic, because he is less dependent on approval, he has a stronger inner conviction of victory, there is less conflict tension, and he has a greater ability to interchange his aims.