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In primitive belief, excrement as well as saliva, urine, sweat and hair were magic substances. We must not forget that in earlier timed fields were fertilized with animal and also human excrement. Excrement is thus connected in popular belief with money and wealth. Psychoanalysis regards the image of excrement in a dream as a castration symbol. Freud was of the opinion that a child experiences excretion as a loss. He found that overemphasis on cleanliness in the upbringing of small children sows the seeds of neuroses and sexual aberration in later life. Experience in the field of psychotherapy has confirmed this opinion. The basic cause, however, is no longer seen as anal eroticism on the child's part, but as the loss of affection the child experience as a result of such an exaggeratedly strict upbringing. |
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