r passions and it is forever lost. Now, they must pay the price in universal disgust. Consequently, Cassinus is driven mad by the thought of excrement, Nor wonder how I lost my wits;/Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia *censored*s. What is so tragic about Cassinus is that both he and Peter are very intelligent, as seen in the opening lines Two College Sophs of Cambridge Growth,/ Both special Wits, and Lovers both; yet, Cassinus is still able to be deceived. The peculiar twist in Swifts theme is that Celia *censored*s is the notion that there is some contradiction between the state of being in love and an awareness of the excremental function of the beloved. Before we dismiss this idea, it is important to remember that Freud said the same thing. In Civilization and its Discoveries, an essay surveying the disorder in the sexual life of man, he concludes that the deepest trouble is an unresolved ambivalence in the human attitude toward anality, Excremental things are all too intimately and inseparably bound up with sexual things due to their position on the body. Also, Freud mentions that the physical appearance of the genitals has not undergone the development of beauty; therefore, remains animalistic. And because they are animalistic they relate directly to its bestiality. Thus, within Swifts writings it is the repression of the anal factor that creates the romantic illusions of Strephon and Cassinus and makes the breakthrough of the truth so traumatic. These men would rather keep their divine image, O may she better learn to keep/Those Secrets of the hoary Deep! (97-98). And again inAuthorities both old and recentDirect that women must be decent:And, from the Spouse each Blemish hideMore than from all the World besideOn Sense and Wit your Passion found,By Decency cemented round.Hence, Swifts ultimate horror of these poems is at the thought that sublimation is a lie and cannot survive. But with the conclusions, Swifts reasons say that subl...
