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We may return to Freud's statement which served as the point of departure for this paper. Certain severe agoraphobics appear to suffer from an ego distortion which is nonspecific in nature but which results from the interplay of several factors:
1Failure of the individual to achieve a position of psychic separateness, and concomitant fixation to a symbiotic partner.