Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-02-05
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Why We Behave /.
HE Human Beings
D. eHoaGE DORSEY, Ph.D, LID.

B n ENlAa- EIn-LOVGs En- Complex
Ii-T-ils emotional side bulges In psy-
chooses we adore" we love" We
are "passionately fond Of" birds, cats,
does. bullfights, pink tights. Ninrnga
falls. Some 'love" half the world of
things md MI the world Of beings.
Others are as devoted to their hates:
they have dozens of ways for hating
things and people. Extreme and lurld
fears are 1lie thiid of the three emo.
stional cruces. A grace in disgrace Is
psNelmsis. 100 p8u rsnd ssipa alA9
= Who!p nalions GET that way.siwe
recently hnted all Germany, even
"Gcrn:n silver" and dachshunds; and
lutcd lie French, down to snais and
fro%s EGGS We chcered at the NOV
les when we saw Il German killed,
applnttlcd when we saw Frenchman
kiss an American officer. The whole
civilized" world suffered huge
psycl0sls: a kill-'emlove-' em complex.
Freudian psychoses are planted in
Infancy and are sexual. Freud even
went so far as TO say that every
dream Is a "wish-fulfiler" and has its
feet on the forbidden pleasure of child,
hood f5rt. rr.t.rrs.
The business OF the seX-impulse is
mating; If the two sexes do not pair
the seX-impulse has not attended to Its
business and is biolOgic failure
Many do NOT pair, a few live happily
ever after; the sex-impulse has at
tended TO everything except its own
business Being denied proper Oui
let, il disarranges society and long
ago became the dominant force in hu
man hehlviOr. BY the time Freud Is
through. life is sex The drive in life
Is love, libido. "rhwarted lihido" Is
responsible for all the trouble
That sounded interesting and Freud.
ism became fad: then. cult; and Is
now a disease and should be put out
of its misery.
Here is the argument. The new.
born comes Tito the world naked md
unaShnmed The world says: That's
not nice; you must not do that" That
begins the conflict: animal instinct
versus social donts. But instructive
81 wants" are not to be laid hy
"don'ts" What then? Substitutes
The young mind" INDUCES its In
stinctive IibidO by symbols, soclety's
substitutes for natures action
For Freud, "nird" is stuff prod
uct of the processes OF development
Certain forces determine the trend of
this development BY "psycho.nnaly.
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 Tn
conscious Mind thick with repressed
instructive impulses and Il want
memories. Tiis stun is q source OF
energy, lpaded, always smOldering; Il
eXerts influence. II is IA hidden drive
to action no less than the libd0 i'm.
pulse Itself
DO the 'repressIons" ever rise to
consciousness? Only when disguised
or distorted MS they always nre In
dreams. In dreams they "rise."
Science must formulate hypOtheses
and proceed to test them But
progress is not made by assuming that
spanking child drives lbido to
parts unknown which later will Jump
up like n Jack. in the box to scare the
man or woman to death.
No child is "bnrn liar" But q
lively youngsier may become pro
ficlcnt one in ten or less wears driven
to learn the art because parents will
be parents and boys will be boys
The instinct Of self preservation
may find perverted Outlei In the i'm.
pulse to be cruel to others n con
tinued, 1t makes for sadism: frightfuI
ness, atrocities, prize fights cruelty
for the sheer love of bcng cruel, in
Guiding cruelty to ones own children
The sex-cOmplex Is complex in MN
and in all species of animals with
sexual reproduction In human so
clety is has become increasingly com
plex II is so indivlduallzcd that
there are as many kinds Of sex be.
hnvior as there are individuals So
many things In life are loved" that
senilmcntaIily is more common than
sensualiy The inherent emotional
drive 10 seek and love mate goes out
10 dogs and sunsets. and bathes with
tears the belongings Of the late be
loved
There are habits, types ana be
havinr; they vary with age and cline
These habits function In individuals
The sen behavior Of any individual is
only to be understood In the light OF
the manner In which the Indvldun
learned to respond to the twO.seA
world IN which he or she grew Up
70 say that man is driven by scN
is to say that a man is mammal or
that human reproduction Is sexual
To sny that repressed lbIdO Is also
II drive but hides In the Unconscious
to pop out IN II bad dream Of
psychosls is the mystics way of say
Ing that life learns ana that relies
arcs and sallynry ana Othei glands
can be and are conditioned 10 say
with Freud and Jung that the
mythology and symbolism Of human
culture have thelf roots IN The On
conscious, is to make magician
cave where by usych" analysis one can
discover anything one puts into IT,
"LibidO" sounds more potent than
love; Unconscious more myslcrlOu
than behavior That Is why Ibid
was so popular why so many startel
to jugglp win Unconscious
GO by Irmge A DorsryD
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