This imaginary "form of the mother's body" has its basis in the infantile theory of the maternal phallus and is maintained even after the recognition of the difference between the sexes. The image of the phallic woman or mother is often found in dreams and fantasies, and also in mythology. It also underlies the formation of a fetish, which is, according to Freud, a substitute for the maternal phallus, the absence of which is denied. The "infantile hypothesis of the maternal phallus," Freud argued, led to the dominant role that the young Leonardo gave to the vulture's tail in his childhood fantasy (1910c, The small child believes that the woman (the mother) has a phallus and refuses to give up this belief. In the essay on "Fetishism" (1927e), Freud returned to the idea that he had first advanced in 1910 in Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood. Even though the term appeared quite late in Freud's career, the idea itself was present a number of years earlier in Freud's work. In fact, Abraham had not used the exact expression in 1922, but it could be inferred from what he wrote. "According to Karl Abraham (1922)," Freud wrote, "a spider in dreams is a symbol of the mother, but the phallic mother" (1933a, p. The expression "phallic mother" appeared in Freud's work in 1933 in the New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, in reference to Karl Abraham's interpretation of the image of a spider. It also refers to the fantasy of the woman (or the mother) retaining the phallus internally after coitus. The term phallic woman refers to the fantasmatic image of a woman (or mother) endowed with a phallus or a phallic attribute.
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