Whenever a neurotic no longer assumes that his neurosis is directly the result of environmental childhood factors, such as the failures and abnormalities of his parents, a turning point in the analysis has been reached. Bergler, presenting brief clinical examples, points out that this collapse of the basic fallacy results either from learning in the transference or from extra-analytical incidents. The discovery of the pathogenic elaboration of the specific childhood data is usually accompanied by transient depression and a temporary increase of symptoms.