ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a one-person situation where invasions and compulsive efforts to drive out, or separate from the invaders, unceasingly recur. P. W. Martin's attacks on his drawings had one continuous theme, murder. Had he succeeded in this, it would have been another false separation, because it was his fantasy of he was trying to kill, the fantasy invader who must have contained all his murderous and envious wishes together with the anxiety and depression connected with them. Martin, in the course of his treatment, has been able to break through the isolating vicious circle of his compulsive murderous attacks and so reach a place of germination, whereas Charles Morris is still imprisoned in a void. Charles's father was in the Army while Charles was little and was also away from home a good deal at other times, so that Charles saw very little of him and has always felt his father had no interest in him.
