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DISCUSSION: Dr. Rudolph Loewenstein felt that the paper's method of presentation, in which the individual metapsychological components of phobia were illustrated, did not help to re-enforce an integration of the various formulations that Dr. Schur proposed. As an example, alteration from controlled to uncontrolled anxiety is first accounted for in terms of a shift from secondary to primary process function; later, the change in the anxiety is discussed separately from the id aspects. Dr. Loewenstein suggested that the libidinization of early tensions