Analytic work is understood as a special type of omnipotence. The patient can handle the analyst only by complete control and thus becomes omnipotent

because 'now I am he and therefore I cannot leave'. When the situation is immobilized, he shows rage and fear. This is a technique he has used in real life—always running and getting nowhere; but he cannot stop and rest because it means 'to have time', and the symbiotic relationship would be threatened. Technically, he handles the fears by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and other somatic attacks. But these techniques will fail because the projected anxiety cannot be controlled on the outside; hence, the agoraphobia. The author stresses the 'nontemporal' in which time is denied. Time must cease and become 'an ever present today' because the ego can deal with it only through immobility; otherwise time must be denied.