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From the organic point of view, the scotomata are symptoms depending on vasoconstrictions of the posterior cerebral arteries. The symptoms are related to psychological traumata which were experienced visually and which were repressed until the onset of the migraine. Instances are cited among males with recurrent migraine in whom the ocular symptoms are directly
associated with passive homosexual anal fears, fantasies, or experiences.