usual sexual objects (that is, with masturbation) corresponds with his resistance.

Footnote 1: It is only of late that I have learned to value the significance of fancies and unconscious thoughts about life in the womb. They contain the explanation of the curious fear felt by so many people of being buried alive, as well as the profoundest unconscious reason for the belief in a life after death which represents nothing but a projection into the future of this mysterious life before birth.

The act of birth, moreover, is the first experience with fear, and is thus the source and model of the emotion of fear.

Footnote 2: Cf. Zentralblatt f�r psychoanalyse, I.

Footnote 3: Or chapel — vagina.