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The significance of male pregnancy fantasies includes more than bisexuality. The literature suggests that they involve active, omnipotent and hermaphroditic strivings. Two cases illustrate that they may also defend against death wishes and separation anxiety. A third case, of a woman writer, taken together with the other two, suggests that pregnancy fantasies have a bearing on creativity and that here, too, the pregenital aspects may be as significant as the bisexual.