During the analysis of a seventy-four-year-old partially literate man, his depression and paranoid delusions cleared. Also, symptoms, such as shaking of the hands, previously considered a physical manifestation, completely disappeared. The

patient's feelings centered around fear of death which he interpreted as a revenge and a fitting punishment for having abandoned his family in Europe to be exterminated by the Nazis. Conflicts about his relations with a son were acute, especially after the son was graduated from medical school and had a child of his own. Two daughters were treated in the same way as his two sisters, as a repetition in symbolic fashion of a splitting of the mother image, one of them being the good and the other the bad mother. The analysis was successful and the patient was able to return to his business activities without any further complications.