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For the author acting out during treatment appears to be an attempt to break a tension caused by hostile, aggressive reaction to the analyst who does not give concretely the love the patient wants. The guilt provoked by this aggressive reaction calls for a repetition of the acting out as if the patient were trying to reassure himself that there is no danger of castration.