The main interest here is excerpted from clinical material. Racker describes a young woman with persecutory anxiety who had a dream in which she was saved by her singing. Although the author recognizes the source of persecutory anxiety as being in the aggression and guilt of the patient, he becomes so involved with

eros and thanatos and with screaming as a 'first' sound that he loses unity in his writing—unity which he maintains is so essential to music. Very little material is given about the people around the patient or about her transference. Singing came from her good ego after a splitting process had occurred and was allied to life, re-creating a perfect, united (narcissistic) object which helped temporarily to overcome depression.