A successfully analyzed male showed surface behavior that invited the conclusion that he was castrated and could only attain modest results with marked plodding effort. Actually this behavior was a defense against underlying narcissistic fantasies of omnipotence which had to be protected from preoedipal dangers

of castration. Early conflicts with his mother and their transference manifestations occupied the early phases of the analysis and conflicts with the father the closing phases. Two years after analysis he persisted in his change from the pseudo-castrated figure to that of a forthright, effective personality.