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The author uses anthropological and clinical evidence to explain the psychoanalytic meanings of ornamentation. He discusses moldings, frets (including the Caduceus, Aesculapean snake symbol), arabesques, the Mexican Borgia Codice, and others. All have an unconscious excremental and phallic symbolism.