The first fourteen months of successful treatment of the five-and-one-half-year-old boy referred to in the preceding abstract is described in detail. The boy, in attempting individuation from his mother, could establish self-representation but no gender identity. Some of his transvestite behavior appeared to mean that in imitating mother he would become her. Overgratification by the mother kept him fixated on oral pleasures and obscured their respective boundaries. Lack of a loving father also interfered with his identity formation. The therapy was succeeding because the analyst presented himself as a male who liked the patient and liked being male. Since respected and liked by the mother, the analyst was a figure worthy of identification both on a positive and a rivalry basis. Teaching the boy things that were pleasurable and security-giving also encouraged identification with the analyst and with the father who, as the son's and mother's therapies progressed, achieved a more respected place in the family.