smell-desire

Updated: May 15, 2025

Psychoanalysis has filled up the gap in the understanding of fetichisms by showing that the selection of the fetich depends on a coprophilic smell-desire which has been lost by repression. Feet and hair are strong smelling objects which are raised to fetiches after the renouncing of the now unpleasant sensation of smell.

Sigmund Freud - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex