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Patients with psychotic types of transference seek to establish a state of total identity with the analyst. This state of undifferentiation is called by the author 'basic unity'. The patient needs to regress in order to repair the 'basic fault' caused by the traumatic infantile experience. As a consequence, certain transitory states of delusion and depersonalization occur. Apparently only awareness of intense distress, annihilating the sense of being a person, is present. Great