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Boyer discusses four patients who became depressed at Christmas. Each craved Complete oral satisfaction from the mother. The newborn Christ represented the rival sibling (or father). Is Christianity so popular in the Western world because its legend of Christ as having no father is appealing to the wish to be the permanent primary object of the mother's love, to be united with her?