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As Freud has shown in his analysis of the phantasy 'A Child is being beaten2', this imagined scene of beating, which is a typical phantasy, represents an infantile libido-situation which manifested itself in a particular phase of the feeling concerned with the Oedipus complex and its repression. Driven by his libido-hunger, the child seeks first of all to get rid of the brothers and sisters who are his rivals for the love of the parent he prefers; to this end he invents a phantasy that they are being beaten, i. e. practically, being beaten to death. These impulses, however, the libidinal roots of which remain in the unconscious because they are proscribed by the ego-ideal as selfish and cruel and prevented from entering consciousness, are soon with the help of a sense of guilt turned against the self, which thus becomes the object of the beating phantasy. This second stage then finally becomes tertiary, endowed with libido on the basis of the so-called 'sadistic conception' of the sexual act and thus able to withstand the resistance proceeding from the pain it causes to the ego. This libidinal fixation upon the second stage in the development of the phantasy 'A Child is being Beaten'—pleasure at being beaten oneself—can find a typical outcome in the