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Symbiosis is an almost immobilized and controlled interdependence between two or more people who might be satisfied in this type of relationship. What is referred to here as the 'agglutinated nucleus' corresponds to Bychowski's ideas of the psychotic nucleus. This nucleus is considered the remnant of a much more primitive organization, for which the author coins the word, 'glischrocarica', which explains the timelessness, the lack of discrimination between ego and nonego, the most primitive Oedipus complex (a fusion of the parents and not two entities), and the characteristic fusion in opposition to confusion in any human relationship.
This nucleus can be modified with different mechanisms of defense taking part in the conflict; it might be partially resolved, allowing for certain progress and maturation of the ego. It is an ambiguous and polivalent nucleus and, in its more overt manifestation, there is almost total lack of discrimination and, at times, a psychotic fusion between the body ego and the external world. It can produce a phenomenologically hypochondriac syndrome, a psychosomatic disease, and, at times, impulse-ridden psychopathic characteristics. The author differentiates the latent autistic nucleus from the latent symbiotic nucleus.