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Gottesman illustrates a vicissitude of the preoedipal attachment of a girl to her mother by the analysis of a married woman in her thirties. The effect of a
highly disturbed relation between mother and child is reconstructed. The child was, or thought she was, deprived; she believed that all her libidinal strivings were thwarted, and this caused serious aggressive conflicts. The paper in fact describes the outcome of a sadomasochistic relation between mother and child.