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DISCUSSION: Dr. Merl Jackel commented on the themes of sadism and aggression in the patient, and compared her to the Rat Man in wishing death for all her conflictual objects because of her long-standing deprivation and frustration. Dr. Robert A. Savitt discussed the material from the point of view of phobia as a defense and, in particular, the eruption of the phobia in statu nascendi.