DISCUSSION: Dr. Charles Hesselbach, after reviewing Freud's use of the term denial, suggested that Dr. Siegman used the term in its dictionary rather than psychoanalytic sense. He questioned the assertion that the archaic ego has deficient repressive capacity and suggested that denial and projection are used in the service of repression by the archiac ego because of deficient reality testing.

Dr. Edith Jacobson agreed that it was clinically true that pregenitally fixated patients tenaciously maintained rigid stereotyped transference images while