DISCUSSION: Dr. Charles Fisher agreed that forgetting occurs in highly conflicted situations in which the balance of forces have shifted in favor of successful defense. Although he felt that work with GSR might make possible investigation of more total organismic states, he warned that the intensity of the GSR may not be related to conflict but may be due to other factors inherent in an experimental situation.

Dr. Milton Horowitz raised a number of questions. 1, Does forgetting occur because of a lack of cathexis rather than a withdrawal of cathexis? 2, Do high GSR images reflect anxiety in the experimental situation itself? 3, What is the relation of the serial position effect? Finally, Dr. Kafka's conclusion that anxiety is a symptom of forgetting and a consequent defense, and not the motive for impelling defense, Dr. Horowitz feels is a return to the topographic model.