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In the first part of this paper, Rowley describes the process by which a female patient of his arouses excitement and then frustrates it. This was expressed in her opening statement that she could not say whatever came to her mind, in her extra-analytic relation to men, and in her inability to tell the analyst a dream. Rowley used the patient's name while suggesting that she treated him like her friend, with a name similar to the patient's, treated her husband by having him sleep in another room. The use of her full name produced a change in the patient, attributed to a remark of the analyst which she could not repeat. Based on previous material, the analyst suggested a pregnancy fantasy—something said to her had had the effect of fertilizing her. She then revealed that this was the content of her dream—intercourse with the analyst.
At this point Rowley refers to the significance of being named, illustrated by the Rumpelstilzkin fairy story, wherein the 'little man' who produces babies and other things is robbed of his power by being named. To use the man by getting babies from his penis was at the core of the patient's anxiety. The bad Rumpelstilzkin girl with a penis is routed by the good girl to whom the unknown is made known as in analysis.