parents. Since, however, she expected to be punished for those wishes by a similar attack on herself by her parents, being tucked up also served as a defence against such attacks. The attacks were to be made, for instance, by the ‘Butzen’ (her father’s penis), which would injure her genitals and bite off her own ‘Butzen’ as a punishment for wanting to castrate him. In these games she used to punish her doll and then give way to an outburst of rage and fear, thus showing that she was playing both parts herself—that of the powers which inflict punishment and that of the punished child itself.
Melanie Klein. The Psycho-Analysis Of Children (Contemporary Classics) (p. 7). Vintage Digital. Kindle Edition.
I think this could be someone in an iron lung who blames their condition on their parents…
