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Some forms of verbal behavior—concerned, for example, with sex or with aggressive action toward other persons-are frequently punished in everyday life, though the same forms of behavior generated by a text go unpunished. Thus, one may be punished for a verbal attack upon a parent or sibling, though not for reading of such an attack in a novel. To Freud, the behavior “repressed” by punishment was released through “identification” with a character in a novel, but the facts may be represented without using the Freudian conceptual scheme. (p. 274)