Glauber carefully reviews Freud's contributions on stuttering, especially the case of Frau Emmy von N. He relates Freud's findings to his own extensive observations and concludes that, besides the projection upward of anal material to the oral level which Freud postulated, there are other deeper and more significant dynamic factors. Fixations within narcissistic oral developmental levels play a determining role. Unresolved Oedipal conflicts work more strongly to maintain the regression and symptom formations than had been appreciated. Moreover, the symptom of stuttering is not predominantly either a manifestation of a perversion