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Much of the analytic theory of transvestitism is based on reconstruction. This paper reports direct observation of mothers and children. 'In all the mothers studied, there was a severe narcissistic orientation in phallic women who constantly enacted castration threats to the boy.' The children made defensive identifications and they showed marked tendencies to regression. Their egos and objects became split in early periods of libidinal development.