Illustrating and evaluating the psychosexual symbolic meaning of the coprophilia through the film of Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom.

Coprophilia is a rarely discussed phenomenon although not uncommon in psychiatric intensive care units, inpatient learning disability services and on wards for older people. It evokes intense emotional reactions in those who witness and who are exposed to it. This paper gives a definition and a current diagnostic overview of this unusual phenomenon. It sums up the medical and psychoanalytic approaches, then makes an effort to illustrate and evaluates the psychosexual symbolic meaning of coprophilia through the film of Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]