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Autonomous defence precursors, rooted in the biological mechanisms of the undifferentiated ego, specifically related to psychosomatic illnesses, and elaborated in development into desomatized secondary-process verbalized responses, are described.
Evidence for their existence is presented, with the theoretical background which relates to them. The class name 'mantle defences' is proposed.