What you gonna do with all that breast?

[Soundtrack] [Zeitgeist] [Tichel & Sheitelgeist]

"In envy, the infant wants to destroy the breast, to spoil it, not because it is bad, but because it is good. It is precisely the existence of those riches, their goodness, outside the control of the infant, which he cannot tolerate, and therefore desires to spoil."

-Stephen Mitchell, Object Relations In Psychoanalytic Theory (p129)

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Conversation best not had with a new mother

"Faeces, penis and baby, are all three solid bodies; they all three, by forcible entry or expulsion, stimulate a membraneous passage, i.e. the rectum and the vagina, the latter being as it were 'taken on lease' from the rectum." (Sigmund Freud, On Transformation of Instincts as Exemplified by Anal Eroticism)

In this essay, Freud suggests that a baby, a gift, a penis, money and faeces are all "ill-distinguished from one another" and "easily interchangeable". Common sense really.

Everything you always wanted to know about metaphorical breasts but were afraid to ask

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