Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

SEXUAL DEVIATIONas was sailing in a ship; water was the symbol of themother's body (connected with early ideas that the bladderwas associated with coitus); to die (being self-abandonment)is to be in love; a knife is a phallic symbol;worms and snakes are small masculine organs; the horseand the dog are sexual symbols (she had once kissed adog's penis) as are doves; a , railway engine (attractive toher from childhood)is a symbol of the penis, as is also atree and a banana; to kill equals coitus (she had sometimeshad sadistic fancies);many fish are symbols ofcoitus; rain, urine, and tears are symbols of semen; wantingto urinate is for her a form of sexual excitement.Most of these symbols are liable to occur anywhere andto anyone. The necessary conditions for a symbol to becomea fetich seem to be a special predisposition, no doubtusually of neuropathic nature, though this is by no meansalways obvious, and a strong impression by which theobject is poignantly presented to consciousness at a momentof strong sexual excitement, this event often occurringbefore or about puberty. The accidental associationwithout the predisposition will scarcely suffice to evoke afetich (except in slight degree), for such accidental associationsare constantly occurring. Hirschfeld has arguedthat a fetich is frequently the real expression of the individual'sspecial temperament. The soldier's red coat actslike a fetich on the servant girl because it is a symbolof the martial and virile character which appeals to her,and itmay well be that in many less obvious cases thefetich really expresses ideals based on individual idiosyncrasy.But in most cases this cannot be proved, and isoften indeed scarcely susceptible of proof on account ofthe neutral character of the fetich. A boy admires awoman who one day urinates in his presence so that hecatches a glimpse of her abundant pubic hair, and such