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Memories of falling in one or another way are associated with infantile grandiose fantasies of flying which reflect unintegrated aspects of a patient's narcissistic development. Analysis of underlying self-object failures of differentiation through the transference reactivation of grandiose fantasies permit a reshaping of such fantasies and their integration into the self organization, thus facilitating a more complete resolution of phallic and oedipal phase conflicts.