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A patient described nostalgic feelings about certain places which later in the analysis became the objects of phobic reaction. Analysis revealed that the nostalgia was an attempt to restore a preoedipal situation with repression of Oedipal death wishes toward the father. The component of sadness in nostalgia represented redirection of the death wishes toward the patient's self. When the nostalgia was analyzed, the death wishes came to the fore and were manifested in the phobic reactions.