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The technical basis for this study is the theory that when a drive-related stimulus registers subliminally, it makes contact with whatever congruent drive derivatives are active in the individual at the time. Previous work seems to indicate that the schizophrenic's type of ego pathology intensifies when aggressive impulses are tapped. The results of this work, which appear interesting but
hardly conclusive, point to the schizophrenic's response to the stirring of aggressive impulses by merging symbiotically with an object as a way of preserving it.