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This short case presentation illustrates Freud's observation that the jealousy experienced by the younger brother, accompanied by exceedingly hostile aggressive attitudes, yields to repression, and is so transformed in some cases that the rival of the earlier period becomes the love object of the later stage. The existence of the death wish toward the brother appears to be substantiated by the patient's feeling of déjà vu when he heard of his brother's death. The compulsive seeking out of the homosexual object is an attempt to undo this wish, and instead to find the brother alive, as represented by the erect penis. The object of hate then becomes in this narcissistic way the object of love.