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Motor patterns can be observed in obsessive patients corresponding to rhythms of tension and release and of withdrawal and approach characteristic for the anal phases of infancy. But rhythms for oral-sadistic and urethral activities may vie with the anal and phallic rhythms of obsessive patients. Cause lies in innate predisposition plus premature and too intense maternal interference in the anal stage. The superego is rhythmic rather than stable in these cases.