This book expands the symbols of the phallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference to myths but by his interpretations of embryonic, physiological, psychological facts. It develops the view that the whole of life is determined by a tendency to return to the womb, equating the process of birth with the phylogenetic transition of animal life from water to land, and linking coitus to the idea of "thalassal regression": "the longing for the sea-life from which man emerged to primeval times".
- ISBN10 6613118087
- ISBN13 9786613118080
- Publish Date 31 December 1989 (first published 1 January 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Karnac Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 122
- Language English