Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Psychoanalytic studies show, however, how intensively the individual struggles with the incest temptations during his development and how frequently he puts them into phantasies and even into reality

conformity with infantile expectation, the female genital was hereby imagined as a male genital.

wished to reach its object from below, was stopped on the way by prohibition and repression, and therefore adhered to the foot or shoe as a fetich. In

some cases of foot fetichism it could be shown that the desire for looking originally directed to the genitals, which

The foot replaces the penis which is so much missed in the woman

and ill–smelling foot is the sexual object in the perversion which corresponds to the foot fetichism

fetichisms by showing that the selection of the fetich depends on a coprophilic smell–desire which has been lost by repression. Feet and hair are strong smelling objects which are raised to fetiches after the renouncing of the now unpleasant sensation of smell. Accordingly, only the filthy

The shoe or slipper is accordingly a symbol for the female genitals

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Many have justly emphasized the fact that the autobiographic statements of inverts, as to the time of the appearance of their tendency to inversion, are untrustworthy as they may have repressed from memory any evidences of heterosexual feelings.

Psychoanalysis has confirmed this suspicion in all cases of inversion accessible, and has decidedly changed their anamnesis by filling up the infantile amnesias.

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Such a striving against the compulsion to inversion favors cures by suggestion of psychoanalysis.