A patient with an easily accessible unconscious presented material to demonstrate his ability to identify his wife with his own penis. To lose her was equivalent to losing his own penis. Yet heterosexual intercourse itself was a many-faceted problem, since it provoked homosexual fears as well as castration anxiety. Unconsciously he approached the anal objects through his wife in a partial feminine identification with her. It is said that the successful analysis, which lasted less than a year, was made possible by a combination of phallic narcissism with partial feminine object choice. This set of circumstances permitted him to maintain good contact with the outer world and to be capable of a good transference.