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A father angrily rebuked his son for pummelling him, which had formerly been a permitted libidinal pleasure. The son responded with a short fugue in which he fantasied himself about to be eaten by a lion. This fantasy restored him to his family because it counteracted his unbearable anger with his father. The author speculates that repeated experiences of this kind can contribute substantially to the development of clinical anxiety and phobias.