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The writer discusses a situation which arises where a patient has been very greatly terrified as an infant by one parent or the other. If then the sex, personality or mannerisms of the analyst remind the patient too forcibly of the terrifying parent three things tend to occur in the transference situation. (1) Conflicts are aroused in their full intensity and with great suddenness from the very beginning of the analysis, which increases the ego resistances enormously. (2) There is a form of fixation of the