The analysis of a married businessman suffering an obsessional neurosis disclosed the importance of his eye defects in his symptom of indecisiveness. Awareness of his color blindness in latency organized his feelings of shame, guilt, and doubt in that 'he did not see what others saw—he could not trust his eyes'. An accidental blinding of his right eye at fourteen years of age left him with 'no margin for error' and cut short the adolescent developmental processes.