“A little girl’s horse craze betrays either her primitive autoerotic desires (if her enjoyment is confined to the rhythmic movement on the horse) or her identification with the caretaking mother (if she enjoys above all looking after the horse, grooming it, etc.) or her penis envy (if she identifies with the big, powerful animal and treats it as an addition to her body) or her phallic sublimations (if it is her ambition to master the horse, to perform on it, etc.),” Anna Freud wrote in 1926.īut turning innocent equestrian interests into a matter of dicks was not just a family affair. Weirdly, Freud’s psychoanalyst daughter, who loved to ride, was all in on this theory. It’s not a little pony, it’s a big penis. When girls ride horses, they see the horse as a phallic and empowering extension of themselves. According to the father of psychoanalysis, little girls are essentially obsessed with horses because they wish they had dicks. If Sigmund Freud were alive today, he’d likely attribute the middling box office success of My Little Pony: The Movie to penis envy.
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