Article
On Transformations of Instinct as Exemplified in Anal Erotism
Über Triebumsetzungen, insbesondere der Analerotik
Copyright Life + 70 years Public domain The last author or translator died in 1939; public domain since 2010.United States Public domain Published in 1917; public domain since 2013.
Freud traces how anal erotism is transformed: in the unconscious, faeces, money, gift, child and penis are treated as equivalents and can stand for one another. He links the wish for a child in women to penis envy, and grounds the equation of faeces and penis in the body itself, borrowing Lou Andreas-Salomé’s image of the vagina as “rented” from the rectum.
- Published
- 1917
- In
- Internationale Zeitschrift für ärztliche Psychoanalyse 4 (3): 125–130
- Language
- German