e nates have constituted
a fetich for many years writes: "I find my craving for women with
profuse pelvic or posterior development is growing and I wish to
copulate from behind; but I would feel a sickening feeling if any
part of my person came in contact with the female anus. It is
more pleasing to me to see the nates than the mons, yet I loathe
everything associated with the anal region."

Moll has recorded in detail a case of what may be described as "ideal
coprolagnia"--that is to say, where the symbolism, though fully developed
in imagination, was not carried into real life--which is of great interest
because it shows how, in a very intelligent subject, the deviated
symbolism may become highly developed and irradiate all the views of life
in the same way as the normal impulse. (The subject's desires were also
inverted, but from the present point of view the psychological interest of
the case is not thereby impaired.) Moll's case was one of symbolism of
act, the excreta offering no attraction apart from the process of
defecation. In a case which has been communicated to me there was, on the
other hand, an olfactory fetichistic attraction to the excreta even in the
absence of the person.

In Moll's case, the patient, X., 23 years of age, belongs to a
family which he himself describes as nervous. His mother, who is
anaemic, has long suffered from almost periodical attacks of
excitement, weakness, syncope and palpitation. A brother of the
mother died in a lunatic asylum, and several other brothers
complain much of their nerves. The mother's sisters are very
good-natured, but liable to break out in furious passions; this
they inherit from their father. There appears to be no nervous
disease on the patient's father's side. X.'s sisters are also
healthy.

X. himself is of powerful undersized build and enjoys good
health, injured by no excesses. He considers himself nervous. He
worked hard at school and was always the first in his class; he
adds, however, that this is due less to his own abilities than
the laziness of his school-fellows. He is, as he remarks, very
religious and prays frequently, but seldom goes to church.

In regard to his psychic characters he says that he has no
specially prominent talent, but is much interested in languages,
mathematics, physics and philosophy, in fact, in abstract
subjects gener