[Footnote 1]: It is only of late that I have learned to value the significance of fancies and unconscious thoughts about life in the womb. They contain the explanation of the curious fear felt by so many people of being buried alive, as well as the profoundest unconscious reason for the belief in a life after death which represents nothing but a projection into the future of this mysterious life before birth. The act of birth, moreover, is the first experience with fear, and is thus the source and model of the emotion of fear.
[Footnote 2]: Cf. Zentralblatt für psychoanalyse, I.
[Footnote 3]: Or chapel—vagina.
[Footnote 4]: Symbol of coitus.
[Footnote 5]: Mons veneris.
[Footnote 6]: Crines pubis.
[Footnote 7]: Demons in cloaks and capucines are, according to the explanation of a man versed in the subject, of a phallic nature.
[Footnote 8]: The two halves of the scrotum.
[Footnote 9]: See Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse, vol. i., p. 2.