ABSTRACT
The child, who allows himself to be seduced and seduces with his skin and his five senses, engages by the very fact of his orifices: mouth, anus; and vagina for the little girl. For the girl, the primary oedipal phase contains some more complex ambiguities. The girl introjectively installs the seductive mother inside her: the excited cavity of the inner body mutates into an internal representation. The girl is more exposed to passivization because clitoral excitation does not eliminate orificial pleasure, unlike the boy, for whom phallicism is supposed to surpass, if not eradicate, oral and anal receptivity. In the woman, however, the polymorphous femininity of the primary oedipal phase remains a continent that is scarcely repressed. More precisely, it becomes masked by reactional femininity and the attendant displays of beautification or narcissistic reparation with which the woman's later phallicism reacts to the castration complex.
