ABSTRACT
In regard to the theory of obsessional neurosis, the analyst attempted to formulate a concept of a split-off intellectual functioning, which he believe to be an essential feature of a thorough-going obsessional neurosis case. The conflicts belonging to the personality have become localised into this split-off intellectual area. Frankie started his first session by building a hospital which was separated into a "lady department," a "baby department," and a "men's department." Frankie evidently wanted to make it clear that from his point of view he was seated on a chair placed in an elevated position; in other words he was held by a thing, a contraption, or whatever one might wish to call it. In further discussion of this there is room to think that the mother was interfered with in her first relationship to this boy by unconscious features derived from her relationship to her brother.
