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Sadistic polymorphously perverse fantasies involving circumcision were uncovered during the analysis of a salesman in his mid-twenties. He had reached the phallic stage. These fantasies are more a result of observation of the female genitalia at an early susceptible age than of circumcision. Birth was a separation during which his mother was made into a woman because her penis (himself) had been ripped away. His circumcision was a castration so that his foreskin could be used to repair the hole. His desire for reunion with his mother was an undoing of this mutual castration during which he would return to the womb, regain his foreskin, and give back to the mother her penis. Reunion meaning repair of her wound eliminated the need for parental retaliation, namely, circumcision-castration. At the same time he was already married to his mother by the use of his foreskin to repair her wound.
His father was equated with the castrating doctor. He had to offer himself to his father, for he had damaged his mother thereby making her less desirable. Childhood enemas represented forcing him to give up a child conceived by father or by self-impregnation. He also equated his penis with his mother's breasts,