He also believes that his capacity for verbal thought has been removed from him by the analyst who isnow a frightening person. Both beliefs give rise to characteristic anxieties. The belief that hehas left it behind has, as we have seen, helped to make the patient feel he is insane. He thinksthat he will never be able to progress unless he goes back, as it were, into his former state ofmind in order to fetch it. This he dare not do because he dreads his former state of mind andfears that he would once more be imprisoned in it. The belief that the analyst has removed hiscapacity for verbal thought makes the patient