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The ability to learn to speak foreign languages may be dependent on unconscious feelings which are under the control of the superego. The ability to speak and to enunciate a foreign language takes its place among the other forms of speech symptomatology; it is subject to the mechanisms which produce slips of the tongue, stammering, and stuttering; it can be employed as an additional defense mechanism, reinforcing repression, and also as a means of weakening the strength of the superego.