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The author puts forward an original theory that the psychic apparatus strives to repel its boundaries beyond itself. For Freud, it is not birth that coincides with separation from the mother. The Freudian soul is between body and mind; it is therefore neither immaterial nor incorporeal. Freud points out that the infant would be unable to survive without the aid of the maternal object. In conclusion, there is no ego without other. In Schreber's Memoirs, Freud discovers the concept of soul murder. Although for Schreber, emasculation is desired when it translates God's will and enables him to become his wife, by contrast, in soul murder, it is a work of demons that deliver his body to prostitution. Two quotations - one from Freud, drawn from the Outline, the other from Winnicott in Human Nature - support similar theories.