He finds her hands and laces his fingers through hers, but not before twisting and sliding her wedding band around. ‘Almost perfect night, isn’t i...?’ he breathes. ‘Almost,’ she says in a seemingly sinister voice. Standing slowly, Jennifer feels his hands slip down her thighs. He begins to speak, but she quiets him by placing her finger lightly on his mouth. Parting his lips, Darin allows her finger into his mouth. His tongue soft, his mouth hot. She pulls her finger out of his mouth and steps. . As Freud himself argued, manyof his own patients who were diagnosed as masochistic were either men oreffeminized men who sought to be punished by the symbolic father and tohave passive (feminine) sexual relations to him. For the moralmasochist, the ego reacts with feelings of anxiety to the perceptionthat it has not lived up to the demands either of the super-ego (theintrojected representative of the parents) or the influences of the pastor traditions of teachers, publicly recognized. Heclambered onto the bed and wriggled under the duvet as hesqueezed up to his mother. Wendy knew that the 'oldMichael' would never have indulged in such intimacy. Thisnew intimate, tactile, girlish behaviour was clearly causedby Sissy's milk. For a few silent minutes they snuggledclose together until Wendy felt her son's chest heaving ashe sobbed silently."What's wrong darling?" she whispered encouragingly as shestroked his long silky hair.Michael lay sobbing a little longer then started. Into each Celtic knot Jacob wove bunches of stinging nettles that inflamed the warm tanned skin on her breasts. He continued to weave rope vines down across her round belly, forming a diamond knot over her navel that trapped another bunch of nettles next to her golden flesh. A series of brown and green vines encircled her thighs to which Jacob added more nettles. The green vine sprouted flame-coloured bell-shaped flowers visited by blue and emerald hummingbirds, their tiny wings brushing the.