Zerbe provides an amusing exploration of the symbolic meaning of feet. Beginning with Fats Waller's ditty about his distaste for a woman whose feet are too big, she proceeds to offer a brief, etymological, literary, and psychoanalytical review. Feet represent not only the phallus but also female genitals, a repository of badness, and symbols of mobility, passivity, and castration. Zerbe illustrates these various meanings with examples of symptoms involving the feet in patients with severe psychopathology.