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Vomiting and greed as most recalcitrant symptoms: the intense desire to chew and then to feel it going down; the movement of the jaws, the biting is very satisfactory. Some feeling of rebellion likewise – a kind of “Why-should- I-be-denied-the-good-things-of-life?” attitude. The good things are denied because the desire is to chew, and the object is only within visual grasp. But then the destructiveness is transferred to, and is consequently felt to impregnate, looking itself.
Much the same is true of smell as of sight, in that with neither sense must the object be in the physical contact necessary for biting and chewing. Good smells are felt to be turned into bad by the destructiveness with which they are savoured.
This frustration carries over into a relationship with the man's anus because he is predominantly representing the cruelly destroyed breast. Or, rather, the masculine anus represents it, and is itself a cruelly destructive mouth ‘producing’ bad smells and bad food.
Stammering is also most recalcitrant. Intolerance of frustration leads to intolerance of stimulation.
We close our most important sensory channels, our eyes, and try to protect the other senses from all stimuli or from any modification of the stimuli acting on them… . The sensory stimuli that reach us during sleep may very well become sources of dreams.
Then why is it that dreams we report, or have reported to us, are so often in terms of visual images?