The author gives a brief account of the successful psychoanalysis of a case of anxiety neurosis with obsessions. The patient's impulse to jump out of the window was related to feelings of dizziness experienced after the birth of a sibling at the age of four and a half years, in identification with the suffering mother. The patient's impulse to murder was connected with fear and jealousy of an older brother. The fear of a 'razor floating toward him' was the expression of an early fear of his father.

Since all obsessions were of a purely eidetic nature, the author comes to the interesting conclusion that the patient's eidetic capacity might have favored the development of obsessive thoughts rather than of compulsive actions. This conclusion deserves further comparative clinical investigation.