White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-25
Why We Behave
Like Human Beings
By GEORGE DORSEY. Phi. D.. LID.
A Kill-'Em-Love-'Em Complex

| 4 clOSeS: we adore, we love, we
are 'passionately fond Of" birds, cats,
dogs, bullfghts, pink tights, Niaraga
falls. Some 'love" half the world of
things and all the world of beings.
Others are as devoted to their hates:
they have dozens Of ways for hating
things and people. Extreme and lurid
fears are the third of the three emo
| tional graces. A grace in disgrace is
psychosis.
Whole nations get that way. We
recently hated all Germany, even
German silver and dachshunds; and
loved the French, down to snails and
frogs legs. We cheered at the NOV
les when we saw German killed,
applauded when we saw a Frenchman
kiss an American officer. The whole
"civilized" world suffered a huge
psychosis: kill-'em-love-'em complex.
Freudian psychoses are planted In
infancy and are sexual. Freud even
went so far as to say that every
dream is "wish-fulfller" ard has its
feet on the forbidden pleasure of child
hood
The business of the sex-impulse is
mating; if the two sexes do not pair
the sex-impulse has not attended to it's
business and is a biologic failure
Many do not pair, few live happily
ever after; the sex-impulse has at.
tended to everything except it's own
business. Being denied proper out
let, it disarranges society and long
ago became the dominant force in blu.
man behavior. By the time Freud is
through, life is sex. The drive in life
is love, libido. "Thwarted libido'' is
responsible for all the trouble.
That sounded interesting and Freud
ism became a fad; then, cult; and is
now disease and should be put out
of its misery.
Here is the argument. The new
born comes into the world naked and
unashamed. The world says: THAT'S
not nice; you must not do that" That
begins the conflict: animal instinct
versus social don'ts. But instructive
II wants" are not to be laid by
"don'ts." What then? Substitutes"
The young mind" INDUCES it's in
stinctive libido By symbols, society's
substitutes for natures action.
For Freud, mind" is stuff, a prod
uct of the processes of development.
Certain forces determine the trend of
this development. By "psycho-analy-
sis" that mind" can be examined-as
one examines the contents Of a jug.
Such examination will reveal the man.
ner in which these determining forces
have acted and reacted.
But the mind is like a jug with
much sediment below the thin skim
milk on top. The sediment is the I'm
conscious Mind, thick with repressed
instructive impulses and II want
memories. This stuff is a source of
energy, loaded, always smoldering; it
exerts influence 1t is hidden drive
to action no less than the Iibido i'm
pulse itself.
Do the "repressions' ever rise to
Consciousness? Only when disguised
or distorted-as they always are in
dreams. In dreams they rise"
Science must formulate hypothesis
-and proceed to test them But
progress is not made by assuming that
spanking child drives a libido to
parts unknown which later will jump
up like Jack-in-the-box to scare the
man or woman to death.
No child is ''born liar" But
lively youngster may become pro-
icient one in ten or less years, driven
to learn the art because parents will
be parents and boys will be boys.
The instinct of self-preservation
may find a perverted outlet in the i'm
pulse to be cruel to others. If con-
tinued, it makes for sadism: frightful-
ness, atrocities, prize fights. cruelty
for the sheer love of being cruel, in
Guiding cruelty to ones own children.
The sex-complex is complex in man
and in all species of animals with
sexual reproduction. In human So
ciety is has become increasingly COM
pick. 1t Is so individualized that
LllGIS are as LldAy hlIuS VI Sex UG-
havior as there are individuals. So
many things in life are "oved" that
sentimentality is more common than
sensuality. The inherent emotional
drive to seek and love mate goes out
to dogs and sunsets, and bathes with
tears the belongings of the late be.
loved.
There are habits, types and be-
havior; they vary with age and cline.
These habits function in individuals.
The sex behavior of any individual is
only to be understood in the light of
the manner in which the individual
learned to respond to the two-sex
world in which he or she grew up.
To say that man is driven by sex
is to say that a man is mammal or
that human reproduction is sexual.
To say that a repressed libido is also
q drive but hides In the Unconscious