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Parasitism is commonly observed in everyday life and clinical practice. Psychoanalysts may perceive that one part of an analysand's psychic structure derives its energy parasitically from some 'other'—an aspect of the self or another individual.
Although there are more parasitic species than free-living, parasitology is not given deserved importance in the literature of biology, evolution, psychology and psychoanalysis.