A woman's analysis showed that her phobia of moving from one place to another represented a failure of defensive maneuvers to keep unacceptable wishes dissociated. She protected herself against castration anxiety and against a homicidal regression as well. The author describes aspects of his patient's eating phobia as being in accord with Rado's concept of 'alimentary orgasm'; everything she ate had prominent symbolic representations. Her promiscuity was a means of denying and at the same time revealing her basic fear of women (mother figures). This was a constant reminder of her defeat in the Oedipal rivalry.