It is to the effect that, with the assumption of an erect posture by man and with the depreciation of his sense of smell, it was not only his anal erotism which threatened to fall a victim to organic repression, but the whole of his sexuality; so that since this, the sexual function has been accompanied by a repugnance which cannot further be accounted for, and which prevents its complete satisfaction and forces it away from the sexual aim into sublimations and libidinal displacements. I know that Bleuler (1913) once pointed to the existence of a primary repelling attitude like this towards sexual life. All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that inter urinas et faeces nascimur [we are born between urine and faeces]. - Sigmund Freud

Front page:
Napkin Picture, 2009
Cyanotype on fabric, tape on wall

Interior pages:
Basic or Boring Pictures, 2009
Cyanotype on paper, fabric, rubberized fabric

All images copyright John Neff