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The predominant symptom in the neurosis, an unconscious fear of sexual intercourse, appeared to stem from an intense fixation on the Oedipal father, but this concealed a fixation on the mother due to uneven mothering in the pre-oedipal period. The conflict seemed not to be fully resolved at the time the paper was written; it was unclear whether the patient was still in analysis or had recently completed it.