The waiting referred to is a prolonged suspension of effort, or the lack of intention to proceed with any endeavour. It expresses various active fantasies: the omnipotent control of time, the affirmation that oedipal wishes will eventually be realized, that one day a penis will be possessed, etc. Fantasies of voluptuousness without end represent the fulfilment of pregenital desires, genital desires being correlated, through orgasm, with the concept of time. Waiting is also a defence against frightening aggressive drives, and a means of denying castration anxiety and anxiety caused by the superego.