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Bloch presents the case of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl to demonstrate the traumatic effects on the child of her awareness of her father's violent disposition and both parents' unconscious filicidal wishes. The patient displaced her fear onto monsters and onto herself as a bad child. This allowed her to deny the parents' hostile impulses and maintain the fantasy that they loved her.