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The Rat Man might not have developed a serious neurosis as an adult following the death of his father if he had not sustained the significant loss of his older sister in childhood. After the birth of a younger sibling he appears to have turned to the sister as a mother surrogate. Some of his feelings for his father were positive and resembled those for his sister.