Despite Robbe-Grillet's professions of personal concerns with style rather than content, In the Labyrinth examined analytically reveals conflicts of oedipal romance and guilt defended obsessionally. Details are viewed in the context of ambivalent conflicts toward the father, anal concerns, self-punishment, and avoidance of anxieties by ordering of external objects, counting, and preoccupation with symmetry. The latent meaning is thus reviewed in a narrow understanding of obsessional conflicts.