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By
GUSTAV BYCHOWSKI, M.D., NEW YORK

In previous communications I have studied the ego repeats these attempts at destruction,
various aspects of the complex relationship the internalized objects do not cease to exist and
between the ego as a total field of organized to exert their power. Thus, the ego is compelled
forces, and the internal images, resulting from to act out its destructive impulses indefinitely.
early introjections. In view of this basic situation, the ego, inevit-
From the point of view of general homeo- ably, becomes self-destructive. The attempts
stasis, an ideal condition is achieved when the to do away with the object may be followed by
essential introjects become completely assimi- the attempt to replace it once more by an even
lated and integrated into the ego. However, more powerful introjected image. Subsequently,
such an ideal situation is hardly ever attained the wish to destroy the original object may lead
in view of intense ambivalent hypercathexis of to even more self-destructiveness, so that
the original internalized images. Thus, the ego destructive acting out inevitably results in self-
develops various reactions in its constant destructive activities.
attempts to achieve the impossible task of com- Clinical illustrations for these reaction patterns
plete integration. may be gathered from the analysis of patients
In the course of this struggle sectors of the belonging to various clinical groups.
ego consisting, as it were, of introjected images, In the analysis of depression one may observe
become externalized and clustered around real the attempts of the ego to reinstal the introjects
persons. Between the latter and the ego which have become threatened by the analytical
reactions develop duplicating some of the process. The image of the analyst, fused with
original situations prevailing between the infan- some of the original imagos, is being made the
tile ego and its main objects. object of destructive impulses which, at the same
This parallelism could be demonstrated in time, turn against the self of the patient and
analysis of male homosexuality, latent and produce a temporary deepening of the depres-
manifest schizophrenia (1). An important sion with the flaring up of suicidal impulses. In
concept that emerged in the course of these his dreams he may show himself filled with
investigations was the externalization of various partial introjects, of which then he tries to rid
aspects of the self. In this process they, too, himself by acts of externalization. A female
having become fused with various aspects of patient dreamt that her vagina was filled with
the original objects, became externalized together books and phallic symbols as representatives of
with them, so that, for instance, in male homo- both her father and her analyst. She then
sexuality the homosexual partners proved to be proceeded to eliminate them, in fantasy, by the
substitutes not only for the parental objects but way of the genital, anal, and oral orifices.
for the self as well. Another female patient who in her fourth year
Former studies have demonstrated the in- of age had lost her father and had introjected his
destructibility of original images in the ego legs, which were paralysed as a result of his
field of certain individuals. Yet the amount of illness, reactivated these processes and ex-
aggression directed toward these objects by an perienced pains and weakness in her legs. This
ego, overflowed by strong ambivalence (original was accompanied by outbursts of destructive
as well as a result of defusion of instinctual acting out towards her husband and her analyst,
drives), forces the ego to attempt various forms both acting as substitutes for the paternal imago.
of struggle which, basically, cannot change the Finally, a male patient, whom I have described
situation. Despite the compulsion with which at some length in a previous study, was re-
.. Paper read before the 20th Congress of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, Paris, July-
August, 1957.
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experiencing in his analysis in an almost episode are not other young men but Albertine's
hallucinatory way the re-emergence of introjects numerous girl friends, the various •jeunes filles en
of both parents and an older brother. In fleurs '.
identifying them in a next stage with his analyst, The same substitution of sexes has been used by
he was trying to liberate himself from them by Proust in the episode of Mademoiselle Vinteuil. A
recent publication by Leon Quint, one of the most
the way of destructive acting out towards his
penetrating Proust experts, discloses that in this
wife and his analyst. Such outbursts were scene Proust really described in a camouflaged way
inevitably followed by a bout of depression. his own acts of blasphemous profanation directed
They were preceded, however, by flashes of towards his beloved mother, who at that time had
paranoid hostility directed against the living been dead for many years. At a time when his
substitutes of the original imagos: in such advanced illness kept him tied to his bed and
moments his wife and his analyst played the allowed him only rare trips into the City, he would,
role of persecutors (2). on such excursions, visit a hotel kept by one of his
I shall now proceed to demonstrate some of former male lovers and would engage in homosexual
my points by a few remarks on two illustrious practices with professionals supplied by the hotel
owner. An important requisite of these orgies was
artists whose biographical data are, I am sure,
a portrait of his mother, the profanation of which
familiar to all of us. was a part of a ceremony prepared in advance.
Well known is the intense, deep, and tender Visiting this hotel and its clients had become an
attachment binding Proust and his mother. Every obsession and he was aware that he could be
reader of A fa Recherche du temps perdu remembers liberated from it only by his own disappearance (4).
the initial description of the author as a little boy In this way Proust was defying his beloved imago,
lying in bed and anxiously awaiting his mother to was defiling it in a desperate attempt to do away
give him the last good-night kiss. However, this is with its powerful, indestructible impact.
only one among innumerable illustrations of Toulouse-Lautrec is another example of an artist
Proust's more than usual attachment to his mother. who was trying in vain to cope with his parental
In addition, his correspondence abounds in direct introjects in a way which proved self-destructive.
demonstrations of this intense and complex affec- Here, too, as in my former illustration, I shall
tion. We know to what an extent Proust relied not gather only a few well-known facts to illustrate my
only in childhood and adolescence, but far into his point.
adult years on the tender care and solicitude of his Henri, a descendant of an old aristocratic stock,
mother: certain elements of his sickness can most son of a tender and devoted mother and a proud
likely be directly related to the secondary gain and despotic father, breaks his legs at the age of 13
which he derived from her unrelenting tenderness. and, as a result of this accident, never grows up,
Now one of the most poignant and, I would say, presenting an ugly shape of a manly torso on short
tragic scenes in La Recherche is the description of legs. By birth and position he was destined for the
perverse sexual practices acted out by Mademoiselle carefree existence of a wealthy aristocrat, sure of
Vinteuil with her female lover in the presence of worldly success and devoted to sport and outdoor
a portrait of her loving father, the great musician. life. His father was a great horseman and falconer.
Hateful and truly blasphemous profanation of her As a first consequence, his infirmity interfered
father is a most important element of this extra- with his athletic aspirations. His father never
ordinary scene. forgave his only son this shattering of his fondest
It is well known that Proust used the substitution hopes and ambitions, nor did the artist himself ever
of sexes as a frequent device in his work, not unlike come to terms with his frustration.
Whitman who, in his poem • Once I Passed through His first drawings and sketches known to us
a Populous City' spoke wistfully of a beautiful represent boats and horses. He drew or painted
woman who was the only human being he remem- them, while pinned down to his bed convalescing
bered following his stay in New Orleans: yet in the on the Riviera under the loving care of his mother,
first, never published version of this poem we find after the first accident. We should not overlook the
instead a man (3). symbolism of the boat with its strong maternal
In perfect analogy, Albertine, the heroine of the meaning, while the horse would, of course, stand
famous episode (filling two volumes of Proust's for a symbol of the father.
work), the elusive young girl whom the author His fascination with movement continued all
pursues with so much anguish and longing, who through his mature years. He was a frequent
provokes in him most burning pains of jealousy and visitor to the race tracks and the velodrome, the
who, after being made • prisoner' by him, finally bicycle at that time being a most fashionable novelty.
escapes forever is but a disguise for one of his more The artist loved to watch the dancing at the Moulin
important homosexual attachments. Incidentally, Rouge, the bullfights and the skating ring, and took
the reader will remember that Proust's rivals in this in with delight performances at the circus. The near
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future was to show how deeply Lautrec enshrined in He explained to Yvette Guilbert' his fondness for
his mind the impressions gained at the circus. His living in brothels, where he could observe the
famous cycle, under this title, came into being during essence of prostitution, the absence of all modesty,
his first hospitalization for alcoholic delirium. and gain an insight into the misery of those poor
Finally, and perhaps most pathetically, we are creatures, the slaves of love. He was their friend,
reminded of the artist installing in his studio a sometimes their adviser, never their judge; their
rowing machine with mobile seats and practising comforter, even more their sympathetic brother.
rowing for hours, attired in a captain's cap and a When he spoke of these unhappy women at some
shirt of bright red flannel. length, the emotion in his voice betrayed such
The choice of his living quarters was symbolic of intense pity in his heart that I have often wondered
his deep conflicts and of his misery. For many years if Lautrec did not find a kind of spiritual mission in
he used to divide his address between an apartment this outpouring of brotherly Christian compassion
adjacent to his mother and some well-known houses for these women who had lost all sense of modesty
of prostitution. His interest in and fascination by and pride.' And, in a passionate outburst, this is
the representatives of the oldest profession has what he had to say to her about love: 'Oh love!
enriched us with some of his finest paintings, among love! ' said Lautrec, ' you may sing about it in every
others, the famous cycle "Elles '. Paintings of key, Yvette, but hold your nose, my dear! hold
courtesans outweigh by far pictures of society your nose! If you were to sing about desire one
women, among which there are a few tributes to his could understand and even laugh at the variety of
mother. its tricks-i-but love! my poor Yvette, there is no
There was, of course, an important element of such thing.' 1
defiance in this openly displayed cult of the courte- Most likely he was never graced by the miracle of
san: Lautrec delighted in giving the address of a requited love, and was as disappointed in this as in
brothel as his own, especially to some distinguished his pathetic appeal for help which he addressed to
visitor. He accepted the commission to decorate his father from the depth of his despair: 'Papa,
one of the maisons closes with murals, as though in here is an opportunity for you to act like a good man.
mockery of places which would usually be so I am imprisoned, and everything that is imprisoned
adorned: an aristocratic palace or a chapel. It dies! ' 2
seems that in this way the artist could defy and In this life without love there remained undiluted
defile the imago of his devoted and beloved mother, sexual urge and the insatiable craving for oral
the mother to whom he wrote shortly before his gratification which found expression not only in his
death: 'Now I belong completely to you. I know drinking but in his gourmandize as well. The
that I am going to die.' insatiability of his oral cravings was paralleled only
Evidently, his way of life with all the scandals it by his desire to see and by his wish to destroy
involved was a constant offence to his aristocratic himself.
father, the proud bearer of one of the oldest names His friends could not help him: 'He seemed
in France. Yet we know that in his childhood he determined to wreck his life as completely and as
admired the Count, and copied and painted his rapidly as possible. 3
photograph. From the place of his first hospitaliza- The unique sharpness of his brush and crayon,
tion he wrote him imploring him for help: 'Now though certainly above all an expression of his
you can show how good you are.' genius, was also a tool of his implacable, truth-
It is reported that he said: 'I would like to see seeking, savage aggression, just as his way of life
on this earth a woman who has a lover even uglier was an act of defiance and provocation. Some
than myself.' This image of his physical self, with women artists who sat for him, as, for instance,
its constant painful reminder, has been projected by Yvette Guilbert, the famous diseuse and chanteuse,
the artist in many distortions and caricatures, and bitterly resented his merciless rendering of their
was probably an important unconscious factor in his features: she called him ' the genius of deformity'.
becoming the master of the caricature and of the Yet Lautrec explained to her that' everywhere and
poster. always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is
In one of his rare moments of complete candour thrilling to discover them where nobody else has
he confided to a friend that he would give away all noticed them '.4
his talent for the fulfilment of his greatest wish, to Was the artist not thus redeeming himself in
ride in the Bois de Boulogne as a slender officer. descending into the depths of ugliness and vice, just
It was due only to his bouts of alcoholic intoxica- as he was portraying his own misery in painting the
tion and, to some extent, to the joy of creation, that misery of the Jews of the Ghetto in his powerful
the artist could bear the deep-seated depression of illustrations to Clemenceau's Au pied du Sinai?
his permanent mourning. Jane Avril, the dancer, painted by Lautrec,
1 Quoted by Gerstle Mack, Toulouse-Lautrec, New a Ibid.
York, Knopf, 1942. , Ibid.
2 Ibid.
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described him as ' a crippled genius, whose witty and mother. Yet, since she obviously remained en-
biting raillery must have helped him to conceal his shrined within his ego, the struggle continued
profound melancholy'. unabated, though in different form. Thus, he felt as
The impetus of self-destruction which finally led possessed by his girl friend as he did by his mother,
to his undoing was a most striking expression of this so that his substituting the former for the latter did
melancholy acting out and of aggression turned not diminish his anxiety, nor did it enable him to
against the self. resume any useful activity.
The extraordinary persistence and obstinacy Analytic observation disclosed some recurring
which he put into destroying himself with fantastic reaction patterns. Raphael felt that his will was not
mixtures of alcohol, tells the tragic story of his his own, he had no power of decision, he felt as
systematic suicide. It seems rather obvious that this though he was hypnotized: his mother was behind
pattern of acting out was nothing but a systematic all his actions and ideas. Not only did he study for
annihilation not only of himself but also of his her sake, but even such a simple action as, for
parental images, indestructibly enshrined within his instance, brushing his teeth was performed by him
ego. He took revenge on them for his misery, for automatically, in her service.
the rejection of his father, and for the devoted purity As a result of these feelings Raphael experienced
of his mother. at times a real loss of personal identity or of aware-
I hope that these few sketchy remarks suffice to ness of the self. It was characteristic that these
show to what extent the drama of Toulouse-Lautrec experiences which were causing him intense anxiety
was a poignant illustration of the desperate struggle used to recur most poignantly during his analysis as
of the ego against the introjects, In destroying him- a reaction toward or resistance against all the strides
self the artist was also destroying his beloved mother, forward he made in his way of living and in his
to whom he was always returning from the maisons studies. (He was able to resume his studies and to
closes and to whom he finally returned to die, and live by himself.) Thus, it was clear that in these
his father, the proud descendant of the Crusaders. experiences he was proclaiming his total surrender
to the maternal imago, trying to divest himself
Our last illustrations will be drawn from the thoroughly of his own ego feeling.
analytic observations of a patient we shall call Time and again he was only too ready to yield to
Raphael, a college student in his 25th year. I his regressive tendencies on a large scale: he felt
shall mention only points relevant to our an intense desire to stay in bed, unkempt and un-
discussion. washed, to be fed, taken to the bathroom, etc.
It was clear that, if left alone, all these reactions
Raphael came for treatment after his spectacular might have culminated in such catatonic symptoms
failure in a second college, a failure which was the as the automatism of command and some typical
final outcome of a period of intense anxiety and forms of infantile regression. Yet on the positive
depression. Yet returning home did not relieve his side the ego was trying to defend itself against these
mental distress: he felt he could not live there, dangers by negativism. Raphael felt what he called
despite a most friendly and understanding attitude a 'strong counter will', a wish to refuse all the
on the part of his parents. He left his home and things he was supposed to do. This became most
lived for many months with a girl six years his dramatic in the recurring resistance which this
junior. She went to work, while he used to stay in brilliant young man was displaying towards his
her room, waiting for her, day-dreaming and studies: there were moments when after a period of
occasionally reading. excellent functioning, he was blocked to the point
It appeared that the girl, herself very sick, became of not being able to write a simple essay.
to him a substitute for a good, all-giving mother. Of one of these especially painful blockings he
Raphael felt intense fear and hatred towards his declared that he felt that should he write this paper
mother and a much lesser hostility towards his he would feel as though he was swallowed by his
father. Another important character in his family mother. Another resistance against intellectual
drama was a brother, two years his senior, who, production was of clearly anal origin: by handing in
apparently, beset by some other or similar conflicts his paper he would feel, he declared, as though he
and difficulties, took the way of escape from the had flushed it down the toilet. It was about the same
parental home and was living on a different time that his mother came to visit him in his student
continent. quarters. He felt strong embarrassment and
To Raphael his mother appeared as a powerful reluctance to let her into his room: apparently, this
witch (yet this was never a true delusion!) command- was in response to his unconscious urge to surrender
ing his thoughts and his actions. to her, so that she could' take over '. The situation
The flight from home (previously, after his mental was made worse by the fact that his surrender might
and scholastic difficulties in his first college, he be witnessed-and thus his defeat made even more
chose a school some thousands of miles away from shameful-by his landlady and fellow-students.
home) was the most primitive way to escape his His scholastic activities were blocked by his
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constantly relating his instructors (and even some students. He would listen to the stories of a fellow
of his fellow students) to the parental, especially student's sexual exploits and would experience them
maternal, imago: for instance, it would disturb him vicariously. Or in a more primitive identification
to think that his French teacher did not really care he would feel completely one with some homosexual
about his progress, since she was married and had objects of original (brother) or substitute character.
her own family, so that he, Raphael, played no part He would fill himself, he said, with other people's
in her life. interests, since he had none of his own.
It became clear in the course of his analysis that In the second place, while trying to rid himself of
the analytic process was stimulating within his ego a his original introjects, he was unwillingly submitting
set of intense contrasting reactions. On the one to the impact of new internal images which he
hand he was induced to discharge a considerable established as a result of recent contacts, since the
amount of hostility toward the maternal introject onset of his illness. They stuck within his ego
and thus was aiming at its total destruction. As though he was trying to destroy them in outbursts
against this threat of loss of the internalized love of furious hostility: among them were his former
object the ego would set in motion reactions aiming therapist and the young couple in whose home he
at restoring the introject under the guise of various lived after he left his own home and after analysis
substitutes. Since both opposite sets of reactions had helped him to disentangle himself from his-
seemed to occur with equal intensity, the analytic juvenile girl friend. These persons whom he hated
work seemed, time and again, of a rather Sisyphean were very much on his mind and seemed to interfere
nature. with some of his activities. Since he wished them
Here are a few illustrations of the above descrip- to die, in their malevolence they inevitably seemed
tion. Raphael used to see what he described as to destroy him as well. In trying to destroy them he
decomposed mental images of women: for instance, felt as though he was destroying himself. Masturba-
he was seeing only their legs, 'like in a Cubist tion was experienced as self-castration.
painting'. In his art course he was most impressed Incidentally, Raphel developed what he called his
by scenes of torture in Breughel or by nails being • theory of paranoia': he explained his suspicious-
driven in the hands of Christ in pictures of the ness as a reaction against his' blurred perception'.
Crucifixion. Thus, the maternal introject was In his wish to get away from the maternal intro-
disintegrating under the impact of his hostility and, ject, Raphael inevitably mobilized his homosexual
by the same token, much of his hostility was attachment to his father and, more particularly, to
threatening the integrity of the self. his brother. This took the form of spells of com-
In defending himself against his urge for reaffirm- plete identification so that at times he felt he was
ing his introjection of parental and substitute images, both himself and a fellow student.
Raphael was blocking his' doors of perception '.5 The struggle against the internal images led to a
In particular he was defending himself against scopto- depletion of Raphael's ego. Consequently, people
philia: he felt his vision becoming blurred, and that and even inanimate objects acquired greater power
it was against his wish that he listened: time and as contrasted with the painful feeling of his own
again hecould hear no better than dimly and described object weakness. At times his notes and textbooks
his sinuses and Eustachian tubes as swollen. seemed alive and frightening.
And yet, much as he was trying to cut himself Beset by all this strife and struggle, the ego quite
off from the outside world and to rid himself of the naturally was making constant attempts at regres-
parental introjects, they were catching up with him sion. Relapses into masturbation were accompanied
in a twofold way. by intense introversion and autoerotic fascination
Firstly, he was regressing to some infantile stage with his own body. Yet at the same time destructive
of development and was reactivating infantile impulses, directed at the introjects, were sapping
libidinal impulses, so as to re-establish and to main- the strength of the somatic and mental ego.
tain his contact with and allegiance to his original
objects. Instead of studying, he would, for instance, Some of the reaction patterns described in
feel compelled to betake himself to the Times Square this clinical observation can be found on a
area and to enter one of the amusement centres grandiose scale in certain manifestations of
where he would look at pictures of nude females, group psychology. As one important illus-
become aroused and have an ejaculation. Thus, he tration I have pointed elsewhere certain themes
was gratifying his scoptophilia and would accuse of religious experience (5). In addition I would
himself of submitting to the power of the • peeping
machines '. like to mention some aspects of Indian philoso-
In trying to rid himself of his introjects, he was phy which clearly reflect the struggle against the
experiencing the feeling of emptiness of his ego, introjects. Thus it becomes apparent that we
which he proceeded to fill in by passively submitting deal here with some of the universal patterns of
to the impact of casual acquaintances or fellow the mind.
5 William Blake.
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The Upanishads state clearly that the ego mistress or look on oneself as her handmaid, or
which has divested itself of internal images may as her child. I look on woman as my mother.
lose its attachment to the Maya that is the great To look on oneself as her handmaid is also
illusion, i.e. the belief in the existence of external good; but it is extremely difficult to practise
reality. In this way the ego may attain the Brah- spiritual discipline looking on woman as one's
man, that is, cosmic essence of things, which is mistress. To regard oneself as her child is a
identical with the Atman, that is the pure spirit, very pure attitude. My natural attitude has
dwelling within the Ego. The term Upanishad always been that of a child toward its mother.
itself means' Knowledge, or Vidya, which, when I regard the breast of any woman as that of my
received from a competent teacher, loosens mother' (8, p. 590).
totally the bondage of the world, or surely The essence of introjection as the principle of
enables the pupil to attain (i.e. realize) the Self, universal life has been most explicitly expressed
or completely destroys ignorance, which is in the famous Hymn to Food contained in the
responsible for the deluding appearance of the so called Black Yajurveda: food is announced
Infinite Self as the finite embodied creature' (7). as the source and substance of all things, it
Various stages of perfection of the Indian sage governs all vital processes. The same divine
lead ultimately to the ideal of the liberated man, milk that circulates through creatures here on
the one ' released while living'. Such a person earth sets aglow the suns-all the suns of the
has divested himself completely of all spheres of galaxy (8, p. 347).
reality, that is, in our terms, of all introjection: Thus one may say that some essential trends
thus, he could realize his true Self identical of religious and philosophical thinking seem to
with the essence of the Universe. oscillate between the worship of and the struggle
This basic idea has set the pattern for various against the introject. The former ultimately
philosophical systems known under the general leads to the submission of the ego to the idealized
name of transcendental idealism. In the Tantra and externalized introject; the latter to the
system of Hindu philosophy emphasis is laid on complete rejection and elimination of all intro-
intermediary stages of liberation from the jects; only a purified ego remains, self-centred
objects. Thus, Sri Ramakrishna explained to and self-sufficient. Yet this self-imposed iso-
a disciple that spiritual discipline in the company lation seems so difficult to bear that, in the last
of women is not desirable, since 'it is a very analysis, the ego resorts to special devices and
difficult path and often causes the aspirant's institutes reactions aiming at restoring the
downfall. There are three such kinds of original unity.
discipline. One may regard woman as one's

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