A wild state

"There were very few of the works of Freud and Jung and Kraft-Ebbing and Pfister and all the rest of them that I had not endeavoured to digest. And while I was endeavouring to digest them, I saw all life in terms of sex. Every symbol was a phallic symbol, and every normal taste was a fetish. I could hardly see a women looking into a boot-shop without silently accusing her of a morbid passion for high-heeled shoes. The manufacturers of mackintoshes, I felt, must all be in a wild state of sexual complexity. And as for a woman who wore ear-rings......"

From The Fool Hath Said by Beverley Nichols, first published in
1936, page 214.

Robin