Blathering is 'a rapid noisy recurrent protrusion and withdrawal of the flattened relaxed tongue through moderately relaxed lips and jaws'. The associated fantasies of sound, touch, and movement are related specifically to breast and nipple, as an internal object and as identified or contrasted with the tongue, gums, or lips. Scott illustrates with a case the usefulness of blathering by the analyst,—not merely interpreting it in words. The speed of tongue movements is related to feeding at the breast. Fantasies of such feeding during phases of anxiety in transference require interpretation.