This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...to the common error, noticed in an earlier chapter, that the sexual impulses are absent in childhood, and only arise about the time and in connection with the maturing process of puberty. We now know that they are never absent, though they may, and usually are, latent during the play period of childhood, which follows ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...to the common error, noticed in an earlier chapter, that the sexual impulses are absent in childhood, and only arise about the time and in connection with the maturing process of puberty. We now know that they are never absent, though they may, and usually are, latent during the play period of childhood, which follows the infantile years. It is this fact which makes repression or any wrong treatment of the adolescent so dangerous. The transformation of puberty must thus be regarded as a co-ordination of the individual sex life--I mean a gathering up and fixing of the emotions--existing already in the girl or the boy. I have tried to show already how difficult these years are in which the boy or the girl has to find freedom for his own individual life and the expression of his own soul. With the development of the bodily structure, and the marked changes in the sexual organs, there takes place a psychic growth, which causes a perfectly natural seeking for love; the sexual impulse now first enters into the service of the life force--it becomes, so to say, altruistic. There is every possibility of morbid disturbance if the new order of development does not take place. And if this transformation is to succeed, there must be no forcing back of the nature upon itself--a turning away from the too great difficulties of the present to seek relief and happiness in the phantasm of the childish past, a condition of danger which must cripple the development and expression of the young life, and so may lead the sex impulses into unhealthy autoerotic manifestations. The development of the boy is, I think, as a rule, more consistent and easier to understand; while in the girl there are greater subtleties which open up many ways to greater evils. Perversions and abnormaliti...
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