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The concept of the conversion process as linked subordinately to hysteria does not reflect current knowledge of pregenitality and ego psychology. Hysteria is just one psychopathological formation that makes use of the conversion process which is employed through the gamut of psychopathology to express forbidden impulses drawn from all levels of libidinal fixation and ego development. The essence of conversion is the shifting of cathexis from mental processes to the body in order for the latter to express in distorted fashion the derivatives of