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(1965). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 34:108-110

A Circumcision Fantasy

Richard V. Yazmajian, M.D.

Analysts have always been keenly interested in the psychoanalytic and anthropological implications of circumcision: however, as Nunberg (4) observed, detailed accounts from patients of fantasies about circumcision are notably rare in the psychoanalytic literature. A singular circumcision fantasy that appeared in identical form in two patients prompts this report.

Both patients were intelligent, well-educated Jews whose moderately orthodox religious training provided familiarity with Jewish religious practices and lore. One patient, treated by intensive analytically oriented psychotherapy, was a latent schizophrenic whose difficulties included an exhibitionistic perversion of many years duration. The other, in psychoanalysis, was a neurotic whose only perverse trait was an occasional compulsive drive suddenly to exhibit his penis to his wife. Both patients had been in treatment approximately four years. In both instances the conscious fantasy was that circumcision consists simpl

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