The author describes a case demonstrating the regressive defenses adopted against the Oedipal struggle. Presented with no history (except for the fact that the patient was a lawyer), with almost no clinical description, with no information about the circumstances of the patient, and with little consideration of the ego aside from its chaotic defenses, it is a seemingly isolated analysis of the id. The patient was apparently a paranoid schizophrenic; the associations are reminiscent of the Schreber case.