Pitfalls of marriage / Walter M. Gallichan.

  • Walter M. Gallichan
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[1926]
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    grown from the universal and physical attraction of the sexes. It is from the sex-impulse that all the finest manifestations of the “ spiritual ” in mankind have been slowly evolved, and are still developing. Plato traced this connection when he described thought as a sublimation of erotic desire. The diversion of this urge, or “ libido,” into spheres of noble activity, apparently unassociated with sex-love, is the source of creative art and of most in life that we value very profoundly. Over-evaluation of the purely primitive expres¬ sion of the sex instinct, as instanced in marriage without spiritual comradeship, generally brings disappointment and satiety, and is only to be described as a crude form of psuedo conjugality. The same definition must be given to the relationship in which the sensuous imperative desire is feared or under¬ estimated. Asceticism is an attempt to deny sexuality. Weininger asserted that “ reproduction and fertility are nauseating.” This may seem an extreme and infrequent mental attitude. There are, however, a very large number of men, and larger proportion of women, who are incapable of understanding the say¬ ing of George Sand that, in a complete love union, the soul has not betrayed the senses nor have the senses betrayed the soul. Marital love is often murdered, before it is rightly consummated, by pri¬ mitive lust or by prudish recoils. The inter-activity of spirit and body is inseparable in the love of the sexes. “ Spirit and body, twins, and not as some
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