This paper focuses on beating fantasies that have been significant in the development of character disorders and sexual perversions. It is based upon material from ten cases, two of which are presented in detail. Impressions from these cases indicate that there is some form of extended trauma in the first year of life, leading to increase in instinctual drives, weakening of ego defenses, and anxiety. There is fear of abandonment because of the strength of unacceptable impulses. A chronic or repeated arousal of aggression combined with seduction by an adult or older sibling, usually male, leads to sexualization of aggression in masochistic forms. There is often a history of exposure to traumatic sexual views. All