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Education and Its Rôle in the Prevention of Neuroses.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Nicole, J. E. |
| Abstract | THE manv factors and mechanisms concerned in the production of neuroses as revealed by psychoanalysis are becoming common knowledge , and' even the complicated terms coined by psychoanalysts may almost be regarded as currency in the speech of today. But it is to psychoanalysis as a prophylactic measure that the medical man, especially the family doctor whose position often requires him to act as general adviser too, can most profitably turn. The curing of hysteria is a long and tedious process involving a great expenditure of time and much technique, but the application of the barest of psycho-analytical principles will do much towards correcting an education that is obviously inadequate to the present-day difficulties of mankind. There are two main instincts with which education has to deal: (1) The sexual instinct, understood to include all such higher aspects of sex as love, maternal affection, the attachment of children to their parents, and certain reaction formations as exemplified by hatred and jealousy when having a sexual origin; and (2) The ego or self-preservation instinct. We find to a lesser degree a third instinct which is more developed than inhibited by education-this is the herd instinct. The first in the adult is present as what might broadly be called the love-tendencies of the individual, and is the basis of the original Freudian psychology. The second becomes the will-to-power, to which Adler ascribed all neuroses as a system of psychical compensations for a reality inadequate for the satisfaction of the power instinct. The third instinct is the one that later becomes the social tendency that binds individuals together into efficient communities. As the growing child develops, any wish or desire prompted by these instincts, but which is considered as immoral, has to be repressed and subsequently sublimated. That is, the wish becomes forgotten and unconscious, and the original interest invested in such 'wrong' subjects has to be diverted and given an outlet in some other way which is admissible to ethics and yet still satisfies the original trend: for instance, nursing in a children's hospital as a satisfaction for a spinster's repressed desire for offspring. When, however, such subli-mation is not successfully carried out, the repressed wish still makes 236 |
| Starting Page | 125 |
| Ending Page | 126 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/jnnp/s1-1/3/236.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 21611452v1 |
| Volume Number | 1 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | The Journal of neurology and psychopathology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Biologic Preservation Community Condoms, Unspecified Conversion disorder Hate Hysteria Instinct Jealousy Neurotic Disorders Physiological Sexual Disorders Psychoanalytic psychiatry Psychosexual Disorders Unconscious Personality Factor affection |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
