ABSTRACT
The interest in faeces is continued partly as interest in money, partly as a wish for a baby, in which latter an anal-erotic and a genital impulse ("envy for a penis") converge. But the penis has another anal–erotic significance apart from its relation to the interest in a baby. The relationship between the penis and the passage lined with mucous membrane which it fills and excites already has its prototype in the pregenital, anal–sadistic phase. As the interest in faeces recedes in a normal way, the organic analogy has the effect of transferring the interest on to the penis. Anal erotism finds a narcissistic application in the production of defiance, which constitutes an important reaction on the part of the ego against demands made by other people. An organic analogy between penis and baby is expressed by the existence of a symbol common to both.
