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This paper calls attention to the special situation which arises when a boy has from birth or a very early age been living alone with his mother, and the father assumes or resumes his position in the family at a time when the boy's Oedipus complex is at its height. This lends particular intensity to the Oedipus relation to the father and so increases the likelihood of neurotic solutions.