This article describes a patient who postponed mourning the death of her mother, which occurred because of an abortion. Nine years later, when she herself became pregnant, the patient could no longer negate the loss of the loved object, and finally began the process of mourning. The paper is most instructive in revealing the working through of certain processes in transference. A final résumé of four dreams and their associations shows how the patient became bolder in manifesting her anxieties, death wishes, and oral rage against the frustrating mother at a time when she was herself about to become a mother.