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A typical sequence reconstructed from Kleinian analysis is presented. After feeding and while hostilely equating mother's breasts with her buttocks as she walks away, the infant begins to explore his own buttocks and is soon penetrating the anus along with elaborating a fantasy of penetrating the mother's anus and robbing her of idealized feces she is presumed to be withholding to feed daddy and the inside babies. In consequence the rectum becomes idealized as a source of food and projective identification with the internal mother occurs that erases the differentiation between child and adult as far as capacities and prerogatives are concerned. Bimanual masturbation of anus and genital tends to ensue and produces a sadomasochistic coital fantasy. As adults these pseudo-mature individuals adjust superficially to academic and social life but are inwardly lonely, entertain secret perverse fantasies, and try to compensate by way of smugness and snobbery that accompany their projective identifications.