ABSTRACT
The "master of the house" becomes the lover-for-ecstatic-pleasure who, during sexual intercourse, creates the woman's feminine dimension by wrenching it from her. The fact that the lover-for-ecstatic-pleasure has revived a nourishing break-through arouses anxiety, renewed at the beginning of every sex act, as regards the pressure of the drives governing every love encounter. With repudiation of the feminine sphere, the woman's ego can very quickly shut itself off from the image of the sexual outsider, from the penetration of the constant pressure of the drives, and from that of the lover-for-ecstatic-pleasure representing a renewed integration of the image of the Oedipal father. The woman's work on her feminine sphere is supported by the lover-for-ecstatic-pleasure through a deep-rooted identificatory arrangement. The lover-for-ecstatic-pleasure cathects the woman's masochism by challenging her, extracting her secrets, tearing at her defences, at her submissiveness.
