One analytic session with a schizophrenic patient is described. This patient had tried to strangle his mother and had accidentally killed a maid by shooting her. To express his rebellious and sadistic fantasies against his analyst, a woman, he made use of all the mechanisms of the primary process. His speech became elliptical, confused, and rambling, characteristics that serve to cover the displacement, representation by the opposite, and other mechanisms found in the manifest content of a dream. The dynamic importance of the transference relationship is also discussed.