ABSTRACT
A discussion is overdue on the relationship of appetite to greed. I should like to put forward the suggestion that greed is never met with in the human being, even in an infant, in undisguised form, and that greediness, when it ap pears as a symptom, is always a secondary phenomenon, implying anxiety. Greed means to me something so primitive that it could not appear in human behaviour except disguised and as part of a symptom complex.
