Brad was described as a healthy, happy and responsive baby. It is my impression that for his mother, he represented a number of things: a guilt-laden oedipal child, her own brother of whom she had been so fiercely jealous, and that part of her body that she so resented not having, that one didn't touch, completely controlled and that had to be perfect. For

all these reasons she consciously rejected a boy child. She failed to respect his spontaneous developmental patterns, interfered with his sources of gratification, denied him free motor activity through which he could have discharged some of his tension, and forced him to submit to her will. We have seen that his father was too passive to provide him with either protection or an upstanding manly example. The grandmother by her inconsistency increased his ambivalence.