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PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXdealing with the criminal or medico-legal field, but aremainly concerned with the psychologyof the normal sex-we cannot avoid the consideration of deviations, forlife,at one end they all come within the normal range.Most of the extremes of symbolism are chiefly found inmen. They are so rare in women that Kraff t-Ebing stated,even in the late editions of his Psychopathia Sexualis, thathe knew of no cases of erotic fetichism in women. Theydo, however, occur occasionally, even in well-markedforms. In its normal form erotic symbolism is undoubtedlyquite common in women, and, as Moll points out, eventhe generalfascination exerted on women by the soldier'suniform isprobably due to the action of a symbolism ofBut it also occurs in abnormal forms. There iscourage.indeed one form of erotic fetichism Kleptolagnia orerotic kleptomaniawhich in its typical form, occurs almostexclusively in women.BIBLIOGRAPHYHAVELOCK ELLIS, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, especiallyVols. Ill and V.G. V. HAMILTON, A Research in Marriage.R. L. DICKINSON, A Thousand Marriages.KRAFFT-EBING, Psychopathia Sexualis.THOINOT AND WEYSSE, Medico-Legal Aspects of MoralOffenses.ERNEST JONES, "The Theory of Symbolism," Papers onPsycho-Analysis, Chap. VIII.S. HERBERT, The Unconscious in Life and Art.Sexual Deviations in ChildhoodWhen we took a wide survey of the sexual phenomenaof childhood and adolescence we saw that it is not easy,once we have put aside our religious, ethical, or social