Interference with orgastic experience is the result of many primary reactions and secondary defenses from preoedipal as well as Oedipal levels of development. For example, persistence of the symbiotic wish from infancy calls for complete and permanent fusion with the lover, yet this is impossible in the sexual act. Rather than permit 'abandonment' by the lover, the ego withdraws cathexis and waits for the inevitable 'loss' of the love object that repeats childhood abandonment. Disturbances of other aspects of early object and pre-object relations that may interfere with future object relations and the ability for full sexual experience are discussed.