Wilson's penetrating and stimulating study raises a mass of ideas that it would be necessary to examine in a detailed exposé with carefully phrased shades of meaning. Lacking time for such an approach, I shall limit myself to the presentation of a few ideas and shall plunge straight into the heart of the matter.

In contradistinction to Wilson, I do not think that the first modification in the conduct of the patient, when she relinquished her stuffed animals, was the result of actual structural changes in the ego and superego. Here it would appear to be a case of pseudo-recovery by transference rather than real progress. This is demonstrated by the choice of the new lover, the athletic man, which still represents an acting out in which the patient is simply trying to manipulate something more important than a doll, while still expressing a phallic demand. This new acting out is naturally related to the transference, but at the same time it represents a need to repudiate the transference.