Besitz als Symbol

Abstract

“There is some warrant in clinical lore for calling a spade a symbol of fertility, but it still belongs in the tool shed rather than the boudoir. Every copywriter knows that a man buys suspenders to hold up his trousers and not as a ‘reaction to castration anxiety’. A woman buys a garden hose to water the lawn and not because of the,futility of urethral competition for the female‘. Possibly we are saved from the solemnities of Freud by the sanity of Rabelais.”