ABSTRACT
Analysts have long known that sadomasochism is linked to experiences—traumas, pleasures, anger, stubbornness, humiliation, independence—centered on the sensations and communications in the power struggle that can dominate toilet training. Despite hints from Belle (as in dreams) and despite my expecting, because of her sadomasochism, to get significant associations of an anal nature, we were almost two years into treatment before such information began to come into focus. The introduction to this phase of her analysis came about as if in passing: she said that she saved up going to the bathroom to see how long she could wait. Only at the end of the hour did I find that she meant urination.*
