phases of development, the erogenous zones elicit sexual conflicts that must be resolved, lest one become stuck in a state of sexual immaturity, "fixated" on the impulses they failed to master. Later in adulthood, they experience a cocktail of neurotic traits and sexual perversions. For example, a toddler that overindulges in the pleasures of retaining his bowels becomes an anal-retentive adult: anxious, obstinate, and controlling with an insatiable appetite for all measures of ass play. Freud's psychosexual theory never survived the onslaught of empirical scrutiny and feminist critique. But despite his banishment from the ivory tower, his ideas have endured in popular culture. Freud had a knack for constructing a narrative, and his legacy is the fable of human psychology that the masses accept and enjoy. Freud's use of symbolism and mythology in his scholarship is perhaps the most obvious vestige of his Judaism. Despite rejecting the faith, he imbued his work with one of our most beloved traditions: storytelling. It is therefore fitting that as I weave my story of Chassidic rebellion, I tell you the version that Freud would have told, a tale replete with conflict and transition, indulgence and restraint, impulses and erogenous zones. So, let us start at the very beginning.... __________________________________________________ Dear Reader,   B e sure to check back here in two weeks for the 2nd instalment of From Chassid to Apikores: The Psychosexual Development of the Jewish Heretic when Levi Riven examines the oral phase of his rebellion. ___________________________________________________ Levi Riven hails from the