Literature (Non-Fiction)
"This analysis does not so far do justice to the manifold determination of the horse as a sexual symbol. Associations lead further to the horse as a symbol of male power, and also as a symbol of the male sexual organ, just as in the analysis of dreams with a similar content."
—Karl Abraham, Rescue and Murder of the Father in Neurotic Phantasies, In The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (1922)
"The Greek notion of the power of a horse was true for sexuality as well as for aggression. Centaurs were a mythic race of creatures, part horse and part man. Centaurs were usually depicted as models for man's animal passions. They raped, they fought, they pulled the chariot of the wine god Dionysus..."
—John E. Scholwalter, "Horses and Horsewomen", In Mental Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and its Pathology (2017)