5 AUGUST 1978, Page 15

Sick sport

Sir: 'After all,' I wrote last Saturday, 'what distinguishes people from each other is their egos, not their ids, nor indeed their unconscious superegos, and once we have deindividualized the lot of them, the exposure of their "secret motives" is plain sailing.' By putting 're-individualized' instead of `deindividualized', your printer turned my meaning into its opposite.

Hens Keller

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