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Antisocial behavior may be viewed in terms minant of overt aggression. With the excepof disequilibrium between an impulse system and a control system, the latter involving assessments of reality consequences as well as internalized standards serving as restrictions upon behavior. The present study is designed to examine certain disturbances of the impulse-control balance as they are manifested in TAT productions. Lindzey has referred to the "determination of the conditions under which inferences based on the projective material directly relate to overt behavior and the conditions for the reverse" (2, p. 18) as one of the major interpretive problems for the TAT. Studies examining the relationship between fantasy and overt behavior have yielded varied results (5, 9). Neither Murray (5) nor Sanford et al. (9) found any substantial direct relationship between the intensity of fantasy aggression and its overt expression. However, in explaining their respective results, each hypothesizes a factor of cultural prohibition serving to prevent the overt gratification of antisocial needs. In order to circumvent the complicating factor of middle-class inhibitions regarding aggressive behavior, Mussen and Nay lor (6) studied a group of lower-class boys whose culture presumably encourages rather than inhibits overt aggression. They found strong support for a positive relationship between fantasy aggressive needs and overt aggressive behavior. Moreover, they found suggestive evidence that the amount of punishment anticipated relative to aggressive needs was an important deter-1 The author wishes to express his appreciation to

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