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DISCUSSION. Dr. Martin Stein speculated that an actual seduction had taken place. One meaning of the pregnancy fantasy is the wish to be cured; this patient became ill through pregnancy and would perhaps be cured in the same fashion. Dr. Stein discussed several aspects of the complicated transference, and especially emphasized the role of the analyst as a disciplining and loving mother who, by her supervision, would have protected the patient from incestuous seduction. Dr. Sidney Tarachow stressed the patient's intense orality from serious early deprivation. He was of the opinion that the central fantasy was motivated more by the wish for reunion with a good mother than by an attempt to deny death. He discussed various aspects of the equation: sleep = death. In connection with the patient's masochism, Dr. Tarachow advanced the thesis that painful affects may be converted into æsthetic experiences, a device (similar to the dream work) which serves the purpose of deflecting the accent from the painful truth. Dr. Brodsky, summarizing, discussed the countertransference in analyzing a patient with a fatal illness.