J. Flescher After a brief polemic in favor of the psychologic-minded psychiatrists against the organic-minded, Flescher explains the sensation of psychogenic pain, hyperalgesia and disturbances in the body image as the result of a conflict. As every analyst knows, one consequence of the castration complex, as Freud described it, is that the individual makes an attempt to renounce an organ which exposes him to conflicts or anxiety. Flescher offers as his own the idea that the tendency arises to separate one's self from such an organ—as if this were not an expression of the castration complex!