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Waiting, as a fantasy, represents infantile ideas of omnipotence, realization of Oedipal wishes, reunion with parents, pleasure in anal retention, and pregenital satisfaction in general. As a defense, it may serve to ward off frightening, aggressive, and hostile drives, and to deny castration anxiety and anxiety caused by demands of the superego.