Edited sentence: In sort a giant or giantess are seen as having abundent power and there fore are seen as a subsitute for ones feelings of "helplessness".Macrophilia isn't always brought on by a sadist or over dominating mother.She calls it a manifestation of "old, unresolved psychological issues" and dismisses macrophilia as a "fetish" and instead labels it as a "disassociation from reality" brought on by the trauma of a sadistic or overly dominant mother during childhood.Some times it deals with the idea of that particular person feeling a lack of power and there fore seeks power in others.The causes of macrophilia are debated but some, such as clinical psychologist Helen Friedman, classify macrophilia as a substitution for a "normalized" approach to sex