“A [person] with the hobby of excerpting everything he read and arranging the excerpts in [a blog] enjoyed in so doing (a) an anal-erotic pleasure: what he read represented food; his [blog] represented the feces, into which the food had been turned by him; he liked to look at his feces and to admire his ‘productivity’; (b) reassurance: the [blogging] was supposed to prove that he had things ‘under control’.”
I was born at or around 9:30 a.m.
Draw your own conclusions.
“A [person] with the hobby of excerpting everything he read and arranging the excerpts in [a blog] enjoyed in so doing (a) an anal-erotic pleasure: what he read represented food; his [blog] represented the feces, into which the food had been turned by him; he liked to look at his feces and to admire his ‘productivity’; (b) reassurance: the [blogging] was supposed to prove that he had things ‘under control’.”
(Fenichel 1945: 383)