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In this brief communication, Solomon draws attention to the possible relation between the wish to re-experience passive motion and the active motor activities of head banging and body rocking. He postulates that these active motoric phenomena
are substitutes for the wish to experience passive movements. In this active way, the child defends against the feeling of being passively abandoned by the mother.