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The dream of this inhibited writer revealed the autarkic wish to be at the same time the suckling mother and the sucking baby, which, following Bergler, the author believes to be characteristic of writers. The patient's associations showed that writing was equated with the giving of milk, so that the inhibition of writing was due to displaced guilt at using writing to dispense with the mother. Such an autarkic repudiation of the mother represents a defence against a masochistic attachment to the pre-oedipal mother.