31. Subsequent analysis showed that the doubt he had about his ability to use the binocular microscope straight away was partly based on his fear that it might make a very small twin look like a verybig father. At the time of this association he was not prepared to see a father and a mother together although his association showed that such a scene might be revealed – if his instruments of investigation, and ability to use them, improved. This warning too was implicit in the statement that I made things very difficult for him. His claim that he possessed psychoanalytic insight indicated that I was in the role of the identical twin – this patient’s imaginary twin