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The neurotic has at least two personalities, sometimes more. These war against each other and one tries to kill the other. Sometimes the one most in contact with reality tries to kill the other; e.g. a woman with syphilophobia is trying to kill her prostitute personality. Sometimes the dream personality tries to kill the one in reality as in cases of emotional deadness where a vivid phantasy life exists. The mystery of masochism is this that one personality has pleasure in the pain of the other.