An eleven-year-old boy was stung by a bee during a phase of analysis when he was preoccupied with conflicts between passive and active sexuality. He fantasied damage and destruction with either passivity or aggression. The patient's reaction to the bee-sting was in terms of precisely the same conflict. As the passive victim, he experienced anxiety, verbalized as fear of cancer, poison, and other dangers resulting from the bee-sting. At the same time he was convinced that the bee had lost its stinger and had died, a fantasy similar to ones he had about the dangers with which he would be threatened if he had intercourse.