In the sadistic phantasies of both boy and girl the excreta play a large part. The omnipotence of the function of the bladder and the bowels is closely connected with paranoid mechanisms. These mechanisms are most effective in that phase in which, in its sadistic masturbation phantasies, the child destroys its copulating parents in secret ways of attack become secondarily reinforced on account of its fear of being counter-attacked and are employed for defensive purposes.
As far as I can judge, the girl’s sexual life and ego are more strongly and enduringly influenced in their development than are those of the boy by this sense of omnipotence of the function of the bladder and bowels. The attacks they make with their excreta are leveled at their mother, in the first instance at her breast and then at the inside of her body. Since the girl’s destructive impulses against her mother’s body are more powerful and enduring than the boy’s, she will evolve stronger clandestine and cunning methods of attack, based upon the magic of excrements and other excretions and upon the omnipotence of her thoughts, in conformity with the hidden and mysterious nature of that world within her mother’s body and her own; whereas the boy will concentrate his feelings of hatred on his father’s penis, which he assumes to be inside his mother, and on his real one, and thus directs them to a larger extent towards the external world and what is tangible and visible. He also makes greater use of the sadistic omnipotence of his penis, with the result that he has other modes of mastering anxiety as well, while the woman’s mode of mastering anxiety remains under the dominion of her relation to an inner world, to what is concealed, and therefore to the unconscious.
As has already been said, when the [girl’s] sadism is at its greatest height she believes that the sexual act is a means of annihilating the object and at the same time she is also carrying on a war of extermination against the internalized objects. By means of the omnipotence of her excrements and thoughts she endeavours to overcome the terrifying objects inside her own body and originally inside her mother’s. If her belief in her father’s “good” penis inside her is strong enough she will make it the vehicle of her sense of omnipotence. If her belief in the magical power of her excreta and thoughts preponderates, it will be through their power that she will govern and control both her internalized and her real objects in phantasy. Not only do these different sources of magical power operate at the same time and reinforce one another, but her ego makes use of them and plays them off against one another for the purpose of mastering anxiety.
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