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The successful eighteen-month analysis of a seventy-three-year-old psychotic man revealed that death symbolized persecution and retaliation, remnants of unresolved earlier problems. Analysis enabled him finally to experience the ambivalence he had all his life been unable to face; he could then surrender the unreal aspects of his fears, and readapt to a normal life with normal attitudes toward old age and the prospect of death.