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The author considers certain structural variations and metabolic reactions in protozoa and the simpler metazoa to be analogous to man's psychological processes of ego development and defence.
The Oedipus situation he regards as one manifestation of a universal tendency towards gametic segregation.
When, as a result of such segregation, there develop two types of man, the one chiefly characterized by anabolic and the other by katabolic tendencies, he looks forward to the emergence of a superman—a product of the union of unlike gametes.
This being shall be capable of progressive evolution by virtue of an optimum balance maintained between anabolism and katabolism, anal and urethral erotism respectively.