ABSTRACT
The integration of the male and the female elements is the prerequisite to creativity. There is a narrow divide between creativity and destructiveness, and it is connected to the denial of bisexuality. The main thesis of Winnicott's comments on male and female elements is that the sense of self depends on a marriage of both these elements emerging at appropriate developmental phases. The succession is being acted; the "castle is being conquered" by female leadership. In the central stage, the elected egg is already fertilised and she is "climbing fast up the ladder". In the back yard all the others are left with idealisation and envy. The ability to separate from the old and familiar and to move on is in confrontation with these qualities of competition, envy, guilt, and melancholia. Most of the time the journey ends in death, and only a few eggs will have the opportunity to participate in a fertilisation process.
