ABSTRACT
Apatient in whose childhood there had been an unusually severe struggle between repression and sexual curiosity recounted to me during psychoanalysis two childish theories of procreation. The first was that the man embraces the woman and kisses her, and when this happens some of his spittle passes into her mouth and produces a child in her. Besides this theory, with which the psycho-analyst is familiar, the patient had constructed a second, according to which the man’s breast, when he embraces the woman, excretes milk which passes into her breast.
