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Patients' drawings can throw much light on the interplay between the wish to communicate and share feelings, and the impulse toward primary narcissism. Attitudes toward the boundaries and characteristics of one's body, feelings of oscillation between love and hate, feelings of bliss or of chaos: these and many other internal experiences are revealed. Of special interest is the expression of the desire for the undifferentiated oceanic state, equated with the orgasm.