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Obsessional neurosis regularly shows a tendency toward confusion and toward involving the analyst in the confusion. The tendency is both a partial ego regression, an isolated 'defense psychosis', and an appearance in consciousness of the primary process. When it is interpreted to the patient as a resistance, the way is opened for analysis of the transference neurosis and the Oedipal conflict. This is illustrated in Freud's treatment of the Rat Man and in a case of the author.