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Undoubtedly the tendencies, through masturbatory processes, to enter into intrusive identification with internal objects, have their origin in the earliest weeks and months of post-natal life. That they have a connection, a reference to memories of life in the womb can be assumed, but the great difference has been traced. It has also been suggested that states of mind influenced by intrusive indentification may be very different from those related to a split-off part of the self which has not been born, left behind, a victim of premature splitting processes, like the little crippled boy who was left behind when the Pied Piper led all the children into the mountain.
‘Did I say, all? No, one was lame,And could not dance the whole of the way;And in after years, if you would blameHis sadness, he was used to say, —‘It's dull in our town since my playmates left!‘I can't forget that I'm bereft‘Of all the pleasant sights they see,‘Which the Piper also promised me.‘For he led us, he said, to a joyous land,