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The dread of knowledge found in learning disability is based on the need to repress a specific fantasy. It helps to free energy for learning if this fantasy is analyzed. The author cites material from three groups of children: those who
are adopted at birth and are told about this at a preoedipal time; girls in puberty who are in a symbiotic relationship with the mother; and a group of black children who use stupidity as a mask for counteraggression.