The organic vision of Hélan Jaworski

forwards in his hole, blissfully and eternally interiorising and exteriorising! Some of the worms have sacrificed so much to reproduction that they are tiny creatures that swim free in the sea and by their smallness and agility remind us of the spermatozoa.

The worms, as a whole, represent the male reproductive organs and show the male characteristic of exteriorisation. However, if we have worm-like characteristics at the inferior pole, we should also find them at the superior pole—the headwhere the secondary sex characteristics manifest. Now some worms have suckers at both poles—and what about the elephant? Does his trunk not resemble a worm? If the mammals do not all have trunks, they all suck, in fact sucking is the first act of their lives. As Freud says: “The act which consists in sucking the maternal breast becomes the start of all sexual life.’

If the worms, free in space, represent the male genital organs, where do we find the female ones? In the depths of the sea live the molluscs—large, inert, like the ovum, they are often surrounded by a bi-valved shell—like the oyster. The female characteristic being interiorisation, we are not surprised to find the mollusc completely enveloped by the two lobes of its body which line the valves of the shell. It is indeed, doubly interiorised. Apart from the shell, the mollusc’s so-called ‘foot’ is its characteristic organ. It is hollow, turgescent and erectile, and in the lamellibranchs the cavity is large enough to hold the viscera when they are forced into it by a phenomenon of expulsion, like the baby forced into the vagina at parturition.

If the molluscs represent the female genital organs, where do we find the uterus? Psychologically woman has always been likened to an octopus. And is not the uterus like a captive octopus lying in the depths of the stomach with its two lateral fins or rudders represented by the broad ligaments, its tentacles, which correspond to the ‘foot’ of other molluscs, forming the vagina? When we examine the molluscs we find that sexual bipolarity is also present among them. All molluscs show marked changes of colour under the influence of emotion—like the blushing of the bashful girl—and octopuses even cover themselves with pustules when sides very sexual trait. The young girl—as Groddeck knew—develops spots when she is unsure of herself and w: