"Let us just observe that the basic key to the problem of anality is that it reflects the dualism of man's condition -- his self and his body. Anality and its problems arise in childhood because it is then that the child already makes the alarming discovery that his body is strange and fallible and has a definite ascendancy of him by its demands ( Read more... )

My grandfather taught me how to sow seeds, how to plant out, how to weed, how to graft fruit trees, and even how to make compost behind the lavatory which collected all the piss and shit from the house. The lavatory was very small, with no window, and your face was right against the door when it was shut. I sat there on the wooden seat for hours ( Read more... )

Fontainbleau, October 9, 1694 ( Read more... )