Rosen and Hoffman report on two patients, one male and one female, who enucleated their right eyes after forced unacceptable sexual encounters. Both had taken LSD in the recent past. Speculations regarding the dynamics of these self-mutilative acts suggest an alternative explanation to Freud's concept that the fantasy of going blind is a substitute castration representation with displacement upward. The authors propose that the eye may represent the evil self and that the act of enucleation may symbolize the destruction of that aspect of the self (Menninger's 'focal suicide' rather than a symbolic autocastration).