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| | DIAGNOSING THE ENGLISH PATIENT: |
 | | Hence the schizoid child’s chief mental operation is to repress his or her normal wish to be loved. |
 | | While schizoid patients, may have quite conventional attitudes on the surface towards life as being something good, the fantasy life, so suffused with antilibidinal themes, often displays a reversal of values of life and death, and an emphasis on the futility of life that one sees so frequently expressed in Beckett, for example. |
 | | In my experience, the classic schizoid is ambivalent about the "idea" of having children— though, may be surprised at how attached he or she may become towards them, should children come along. |
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