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Ferenczi, Sandor. Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality (Continued).
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1. Ferenczi, S.Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality.—Ferenczi finds in the familiar symbol of a fish moving in water not only the representative uniting birth and coitus, but the developmental history of the species. He believes that birth is a recapitulation of the catastrophe when the ocean receded and animals were forced to life on land. The history of the germ cells is likewise a sort of recapitulation. The symbolism of dreams and neuroses reveals a fundamental identification of the mother's body with the sea water and with the earth as the source of nourishment. Birth and coitus are represented as rescue from water, swimming, putting into water, flood. Coitus is a reëxperience of intrauterine existence, containing birth anxiety and subsequent pleasure in surmounting it; also the ancestor's victory over death in the drying up of the sea.