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This is a brief study of psychotic identity search in which the fragmentation is concretely experienced as a right and left side of the body. This polarization represents unresolved unconscious bisexuality and reflects the ego's inability to interpret reality, master intense anxiety, and express ambivalence in language. This illusory absolute antithesis is a defense against the threatened regression to the undifferentiated wholeness of infancy and the total loss of relatedness to objects.