In 1918, at the age of 21, J. B. suffered an extremely serious wound:  A bullet passed through the fifth vertebra of his spinal column and deprived him of all future use of his legs…

    It was in 1932 that J. B. felt an intense love for a young girl who reciprocated his affections.  He proceeded, if one may put it this way, to her deification, focusing that deification of her very beautiful face.

    Gradually her physical reality imposed itself over his own.  He could catch the timbre of her voice in his own voice.  Her face became internalized within his own, her entire image was projected over his and she inhabited his entire body.  It is obvious that the representation gained the upper hand to the point of disturbing his perception because when she entered his house, he ceased to perceieve her normally.  The Other did not actualize in favor of an image incorporated into the Ego; internally at prenatal depths he became the woman he was preparing to posses.

    The transfer was first accompanied by ideas of incest, in the sense that she had imperceptibly become his sister, followed by ideas of hermaphroditism, until the day that his deification of the young woman and simultaneously himself had been taken to such extreme lengths that he transformed into his opposite.

    She allowed him to take obscene photos of her.  The sight of these prints and the coincidental provocation supplied by an overly strong dose of cocaine caused the young woman’s buttocks to become the predominant image, which because increasingly confused with the image of her heavenly face until the most fleeting expressions on that face became identical with the blind smile of the two immense eyes that were the hemispheres of her rectum opening on her anus.  This is where his desire carried him exclusively, confusing the masculine and the feminine, and the self and the Other, and then sodomizing the self in the other.

    —from Little Anatomy of the Psysical Unconscious, of The Anatomy of the Image by Hans Bellmer, 1957

    In 1918, at the age of 21, J. B. suffered an extremely serious wound:  A bullet passed through the fifth vertebra of his spinal column and deprived him of all future use of his legs… It was in 1932 that J. B. felt an intense love for a young girl who reciprocated his affections.  He proceeded, if one may put it this way, to her deification, focusing that deification of her very beautiful face. Gradually her physical reality imposed itself over his own.  He could catch the timbre of her voice in his own voice.  Her face became internalized within his own, her entire image was projected over his and she inhabited his entire body.  It is obvious that the representation gained the upper hand to the point of disturbing his perception because when she entered his house, he ceased to perceieve her normally.  The Other did not actualize in favor of an image incorporated into the Ego; internally at prenatal depths he became the woman he was preparing to posses. The transfer was first accompanied by ideas of incest, in the sense that she had imperceptibly become his sister, followed by ideas of hermaphroditism, until the day that his deification of the young woman and simultaneously himself had been taken to such extreme lengths that he transformed into his opposite. She allowed him to take obscene photos of her.  The sight of these prints and the coincidental provocation supplied by an overly strong dose of cocaine caused the young woman’s buttocks to become the predominant image, which because increasingly confused with the image of her heavenly face until the most fleeting expressions on that face became identical with the blind smile of the two immense eyes that were the hemispheres of her rectum opening on her anus.  This is where his desire carried him exclusively, confusing the masculine and the feminine, and the self and the Other, and then sodomizing the self in the other. —from Little Anatomy of the Psysical Unconscious, of The Anatomy of the Image by Hans Bellmer, 1957