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Some neurotics present a particular problem by clinging to pseudo-aggressive tactics with which they provoke others and prove unconsciously to themselves that they are not masochistic but aggressive. In addition to this obvious defense against inner passivity, they show an ego so weak and empty that it has nothing to offer and is incapable of finding a substitute. This 'empty bag' attitude re-enforces the defensive technique which is typically encountered in orally regressed cases. Examples are given of people with artistic aspirations but without corresponding performance, parasites nourished on the achievements of other people whom they treat with arrogance to compensate for their own sense of deflation. They are severe masochists whose childhood histories produced the image of a disagreeable, nagging, pretentious and opinionated mother while the father was a weakling. The results are: 1, a pseudo aggression, covering up and leading to masochistically enjoyed self-damage and 2, an unconscious magic gesture meaning 'I will show you in my behavior how I did not want to be treated'. They unconsciously act the part of the bad mother to whom they are masochistically attached. Their overbearance can easily be swayed by listening to an opposite opinion, they are 'able to see both sides of the problem'. Passivity can be disguised, not eradicated, by an inner defense. The marriages of these patients were fashioned after the principle of 'injustice collecting'.