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From an analysis of a young woman suffering from various postencephalitic symptoms it appeared that those symptoms were not merely of organic origin but were psychologically determined as well. They represented a combined reaction to a sense of ego impoverishment and of loss of penis (based on the castration complex) which the physical handicaps caused by her illness had set up in her mind.