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Claustrophobia, defined strictly as the fear of being caught or crushed by the closing in of the space about one, was found in the case reported to arise from an idea of being disturbed in utero —pushed out, or born—by the parental coitus. Early childhood theories of gestation, embryology and birth give the specific form and content of the later fantasies from which arises the phobic anxiety.