ABSTRACT
At last we come to Freud’s (1909d) “Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis”, the case I discussed at the beginning of this book as one that shaped my early thinking about the concept of pink herrings. In returning to my copy of the case I found that I had indeed marked instances throughout where Freud uses words such as “anus”, “buttocks”, “rectum”, and “arse” to discuss the key coordinates of the case as he saw them. As we know by this point of the book, my focus will not specifically be on these words. Indeed, my early interest in them was something of a pink herring itself. Nonetheless, into the future there is most definitely a study to be made of how both Freud and Lacan, when discussing the case, variously use these words in ways that potentially have something to tell us about their own positionings in addition to what each of the terms have to tell us about the neuroses of Ernst Lanzer, the analysand who is the focus of the case.
