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During the first hour in analysis, a patient revealed an extreme uneasiness about the analyst's age. She had expected someone much older. She believed that the analyst was her contemporary and was so bothered by this that she questioned
the possibility of successful analysis with him. As the analysis proceeded it became evident that this uneasiness over the analyst's age was deeply rooted in important fantasies and occurrences in her life. The technical problem posed in the first interview by this uneasiness could be understood retrospectively as having anticipated some of the central issues that arose in the analysis.