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Neurotic conflict leading to compromise and symptom formation in children can lead to academic failure. This paper focuses on how the learning process, when sexualized and impaired by aggressive symbolization and narcissistic injury, resulted in a youngster's failure to learn how to read and on how through psychoanalytic treatment he was returned to a path of normal development.