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At the peaks of intense pain, the entire self is filled with nothing but pain. The ego responds with disadvantageous tautness and apnea. Relaxation, a better response, depends on the ability to cope with the dread of destruction. Repression blocks the memory of severe pain, so that one cannot imagine it and builds no immunity to later similar experiences.