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Using case histories to illustrate their hypotheses, the authors discuss a study of twenty delinquent female adolescents. They suggest that a combination of rage toward the neglectful and/or abusive mothers of their childhoods and a terror of the regressive homosexual pull toward the mothers in adolescence resulted at times in particular forms of violent acting out by these young women.