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- ↑ Fenichel, Otto; Rangell, Leo (1996). The psychoanalytic theory of neurosis (50th anniversary ed.). New York: Norton. p. 217. ISBN 0393038904. OCLC 32927192.
- ↑ Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (London 1989)p. 368 and p. 647
- ↑ Fenichel, Otto; Rangell, Leo (1996). The psychoanalytic theory of neurosis (50th anniversary ed.). New York: Norton. p. 229. ISBN 0393038904. OCLC 32927192.
- ↑ George Henderson et al, A Practitioner's Guide tp Understanding Indigenous and Foreign Cultures 92006) p. 57
- ↑ Steven Wainrib, "Autoplastic"