ABSTRACT
Charlotte's mother advised her to watch the elder of her daughters, aged eight, closely for, according to her, the child was an object of lust for the caretaker, and was in danger of rape. She has an eight-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. Charlotte's companion several times threatened to kill her and her daughters. Charlotte's father had been killed in the Resistance when she was one; at her birth her parents were in the process of getting a divorce. The danger of sexual murder manifests itself in Charlotte in the following manner. In their sexual lives, these women are not masochists; their suffering is not eroticized in any special way, not even the passivity itself. The choice of a homosexual object represents a victory over the mother, an attempt to realize independence other than by the normal process of identification, and to supplant her. The absence of introjection of the paternal penis is at the root of male homosexuality.
