Significant life experiences and important writings of Swift, discussed analytically, reveal pregenital fixations pre-eminent in his peculiar type of phantasy. The anal character of his misogyny, anal traits in the unconscious self portrait of Gulliver's Travels, the clarity with which he portrays the peculiar nature of his super-ego conflicts and the peculiar forms of insight into himself evinced in his writings all serve to emphasize the dominance of the pregenital fixations.