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Richard was from the beginning in very close contact with Mrs K. He said he was going to make some drawings—at least five of them.… He told Mrs K. that a boy of his age was now staying at the hotel and worried him. The boy would not leave him alone, wanted to play with him, and was impudent to him. Mummy said something to the boy which made him go away.
Mrs K. asked him in what way the boy was impudent.
Richard seemed unable to explain this. Meanwhile he had been looking at some of the drawings, particularly 27. Then he began to draw 28 and asked whether Mrs K. could advise him what to do about the boy at the hotel who worried him so much.
Mrs K. interpreted that Richard had been looking at Drawing 27 when he told her about the boy at the hotel; and that the fight on the drawing between himself, Daddy, and Paul inside Mummy in the east had reminded him of the fight between himself and that boy. The hotel stood for Mummy's inside and the boy for Daddy's hostile genital attacking him.
During this interpretation Richard had taken one of the pencils into his mouth and was sucking and biting it. He said it was nice to suck.
Mrs K. interpreted that he not only wanted to suck it (standing for Daddy's or Paul's penis), but to bite it off and eat it, and then he felt that inside himself the good penis turned into the octopus, into the bad, dangerous penis. That again made him all the more keen to eat the delicious meat of the monster, the good penis (Note