The Seba library treats Buttocks in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Freud, Sigmund, Jung, Carl Gustav, Kerényi, Karl).
ily perceive in this dream a representation of an attempt at c (between the two stately buttocks of the female body). The n sage rising in an incline stood, of course, for the vagina.
Freud reads the buttocks as a dream-symbol that architecturally encodes the vagina, demonstrating the mechanism of sexual displacement and topographic substitution in dream-work.
, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900thesis
I look at her with curiosity and touch her buttocks… first heard that touching the buttocks is a fertility rite when I was on a tour through the Wallis [a canton in French Switzerland]
Jung’s case material reframes the touching of the buttocks from erotic curiosity to a fertility rite, connecting a modern dream gesture to Palaeolithic goddess-figurine symbolism and chthonic sacred practice.
, Man and His Symbols, 1964thesis
works of art that portrayed the beauty of the goddess as “Kalligloutos” or “Kallipygos”, “she of the beautiful buttocks”, with her dress lifted high around her
Kerényi traces how the sacred awe surrounding divine nakedness was aestheticized into the epithet ‘Kallipygos,’ marking the buttocks as a primary site of goddess-beauty in Greek cultic and artistic tradition.
, The Gods of the Greeks, 1951thesis
Bottom means ‘underside’ and also ‘buttocks.’ These are double meanings in the language that thus belong to the context as well… I am like a prisoner on this flight with glass buttocks; flighty.
Bosnak’s phenomenological dreamwork demonstrates how ‘buttocks’ functions as a polysemous dream-image component, simultaneously anatomical and metaphorical, folded into the spatial and existential meanings of a dream text.
, A Little Course in Dreams, 1986supporting
A slang word, completely avoided in epic poetry and higher literature… It has no convincing etymology. Connection with Skt. puga- ‘multitude, mass’, etc. is phonetically fine, but the semantics are not compelling.
Beekes establishes that the principal Greek term for ‘buttocks’ is vernacular slang deliberately excluded from elevated literary registers, its very etymology resisting scholarly resolution — a suppression depth psychology reverses.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
KOXWV’l [E] ‘buttocks’… The almost complete identity with Skt. jaghana- [m., n.] ‘buttocks’ can hardly be a coincidence, but the further analysis remains hypothetical.
Beekes documents a Greek lexeme for ‘buttocks’ with a probable Indo-European cognate in Sanskrit, indicating the deep antiquity of bodily nomenclature even where formal etymology remains contested.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
In his childhood it had subserved a peculiar auto-erotic practice in which he used to sit down so that the heel of his boot was pressed against the anal region.
Abraham’s case study, while focused on fetishism and anal eroticism rather than the buttocks per se, illustrates the anal-gluteal region as a site of infantile auto-erotic organization with psychosexual developmental consequences.
, Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis, 1927aside