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• David Rapaport emphasised the need for caution and extreme slowness in analyzing counterphobic defences.
• Julia Kristeva considered that language could be used by the developing child as a counterphobic object, protecting against anxiety and loss.
• Sex is a key area for counterphobic activity, sometimes powering hypersexuality in people who are actually afraid of the objects they believe they love.
• Wilhelm Fliess has been seen as playing the role of counterphobic object for Freud during the period of the latter's self-analysis.
• Otto Fenichel considered that undoing systematised counterphobic defences was only a first step in therapy, needing to be followed by analysis of the original anxiety itself.
• Dare-devil activities are often undertaken in a counterphobic spirit, as a denial of the fears attached to them, which may be only partially successful.
• Acting out in general may have a counterphobic source, reflecting a false self over-concerned with compulsive doing to preserve a sense of power and control.
• Ego psychology points out that through the ambiguities of language, the concrete meanings of words may break down the counterphobic attitude and return the child to a state of fear.
• Didier Anzieu saw Freud's theorisation of psychoanalysis as a counterphobic defence against anxiety through intellectualisation : permanently ruminating on the instinctive, emotional world that was the actual object of fear.
• He also considered that psychological trauma could break down counterphobic defences, with results that " may be very painful for the patient; they are, from a therapeutic point of view, favorable ".
• Sick, the documentary on masochistic performance artist Bob Flanagan, discusses the counterphobic attitude of Flanagan, who sought to escape the chronic pain of his cystic fibrosis by engaging in extreme acts of masochism.
• Contrary to the avoidant personality disorder, the counterphobic represents the less usual, but not totally uncommon, response of seeking out what is feared : codependents may fall into a subcategory of this group, hiding their fears of attachment in over-dependency.