Some Remarks on Tobacco
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"Some Remarks on Tobacco" is an essay by Eric Hiller on the phallic symbolism of smoking, published in (The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis III 1922 Part 4).
Excerpt:
- Cigarettes and cigars can symbolise the penis. They are cylindrical and tubular. They have a hot, red end. They emit smoke that is fragant ( = flatus = semen). …
- I refer to the reason, or at least one of the reasons, why people start smoking (and, of course, why they go on), that is the phallic significance of the cigarette, cigar and pipe. It is thus a substitute for the penis (mother’s breast) of which they have been deprived (castrated, weaned).[1]
Full text of "The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis III 1922 Part 4 (full text)"
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