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An attempt has been made to focus on the orality in the phobic reaction. The fear of losing control of oral hostility and the fear of oral incorporative guilt are ego-threatening and may be handled by phobic avoidance. Aichmophobia or the dread of sharp objects is presented not as an oedipal or castration anxiety but as fundamentally an oral solution in a decompensating ego.
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Shave, D.W. The orality in phobias. Psych Quar 42, 137–145 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563959
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