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Case material is presented which illustrates the conversion of doubt from a defensive, concealing mechanism to a sceptical, revealing process under the influence of analytic interpretation. It is suggested that what happened in this instance was the first step toward sublimation. Sublimation of an impulse is inevitably accompanied by a change in the function of defenses against it.