Ernest Jones on Holy Communion : refurbishing an early psychoanalytic insight

Author

Carroll, Michael P.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Journal of psychohistory. 1991, Num. 3, Vol. 18, 307-315

ISSN

0145-3378

Abstract (en)

Refers to a case published by Jones in 1910 regarding a mentally ill woman for whom there was a strong psychological association between fellatio and the act of receiving Holy Communion. It was drinking the Communion wine that most allowed this patient to establish the equivalence. Then focuses on early Christian myth and art ca.1st-4th cs. and the preference for a Eucharist of bread and fish rather than bread and wine. Suggests that this de-emphasis of the Eucharistic wine reflects the attempt to deny the imagery of oral sex that would otherwise be activated by Communion under both species. Fish was the chosen substitute since it is the only solid food associated with "liquid."

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400
• Art
• 100-400
• Early Christian
• Iconography
• Eucharist
• Sexuality
• Psychology
• Bread
• Wine
• Fish
• Christian iconography
• Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958
• Writings

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400
• Art
• 100-400
• Paléochrétien (art)
• Iconographie
• Eucharistie
• Sexualité
• Psychologie
• Pain
• Vin
• Poisson
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958
• Ecrits

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19921001-00433062

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