ABSTRACT

The psychologic compulsion for the transformation of the libido is based on an original division of the will. Other primitive discoveries probably have acquired their sexual symbolism in the same manner, being also derived from the sexual libido. When, through the actual preparation of fire, the sexual character of the libido employed in that is fulfilled, then the mouth zone remains without adequate expression; only the hand has now reached its real, purely human goal in its first art. As such bad habits may persist far into adult life as regular symptoms of a repressed amount of libido. In its migration the libido takes more than a little of the function of nutrition with it into the sexual zone, which readily accounts for the numerous and innate correlations between the functions of nutrition and sexuality. The libido is taken away from its proper place and transferred to another substratum.