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The author illustrates through brief clinical vignettes that the severity of the pathogenic effects of the most terrible traumas varies considerably in accordance with the solidity or the fragility of the primal core, prior to repression; that is, the unrepresented, unpast, and forever actual, stemming from the precocious mothering and founder of the sense of identity and of the basic trust in the Other and in oneself.