title: On conscious primal scene fantasies.
abstract: Pertinent literature concerning the pathogenicity of the primal scene is reviewed. Two psychoanalytic cases, both of whom had conscious primal scene fantasies prior to beginning psychoanalysis, are discussed. These fantasies did not represent significant ego or superego deficits. The authors suggest that conscious primal scene fantasies, in these patients, represented screen memories. Both patients were successfully analyzed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003075:Coitus; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003243:Consciousness; D005201:Fantasy; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D014796:Visual Perception