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Hostility to a fertile mother and inability to identify oneself with her are seen as the basic factor in infertile women. In seven out of eight cases studied, a catastrophic reality connected with the idea of maternity (such as maternal death or psychosis) re-enforced the flight from fertility. The problems of envy appear in the transference situation.