From Michael Lewis’s It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!: Published in 1984 by a distinguished anthropologist named Alan Dundes, Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder set out to describe the German character through the stories that ordinary Germans liked to tell one another. Dundes specialized in folklore, and in German folklore, as he put it, “one finds an inordinate number of texts concerned with anality. Scheisse (shit), Dreck (dirt), Mist (manure), Arsch (ass).… Folksongs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, folk speech—all attest to the Germans’ longstanding special interest in this area of human activity.” Dundes goes on, “The combination of clean and dirty: clean exterior-dirty interior, or clean form and dirty content—is very much a part of the German national character.” So, by that measure how German is Freud? Well, he seems to have his own fecal fixation. In Dreams in Folklore (1911), Freud writes: “How old this connection between excrement and Gold is can be seen from an observation by Jeremias: gold, according to ancient oriental mythology, is the excrement of hell”
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From Michael Lewis’s It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!:

Published in 1984 by a distinguished anthropologist named Alan Dundes, Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder set out to describe the German character through the stories that ordinary Germans liked to tell one another. Dundes specialized in folklore, and in German folklore, as he put it, “one finds an inordinate number of texts concerned with anality. Scheisse (shit), Dreck (dirt), Mist (manure), Arsch (ass).… Folksongs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, folk speech—all attest to the Germans’ longstanding special interest in this area of human activity.”

Dundes goes on, “The combination of clean and dirty: clean exterior-dirty interior, or clean form and dirty content—is very much a part of the German national character.” So, by that measure how German is Freud? Well, he seems to have his own fecal fixation. In Dreams in Folklore (1911), Freud writes: “How old this connection between excrement and Gold is can be seen from an observation by Jeremias: gold, according to ancient oriental mythology, is the excrement of hell”