So, clearly, it becomes for the child 'an alter ego usually craftier, more intelligent, and more clever than the individual'; because the urinary function and later the erection are midway between voluntary processes and spontaneous processes, because it is the impulsive, quasi foreign source of subjectively experienced pleasure, the penis is posited by the subject as himself and other than himself; specific transcendence is embodied in it in a graspable way, and it is a source of pride; because the phallus is set apart, man can integrate into his personality the life that flows from it.