Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after / by William A. White.
- William Alanson White
- Date:
- 1919
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after / by William A. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![velopment of the sex instinct on the one hand and the instinct of self-preservation on the other, in which the result of satisfy¬ ing the sex hunger—the child—is desired both as a means of security in old age and also as a means of projecting one’s self into the future, the instinct for immortality. All of the instincts may be classified into two fundamental ones, namely, the self- preservation instinct (type hunger), and the race-preservation instinct (type sexu¬ ality). Or from another point of view, the attitude of the individual towards the ob¬ ject of instinct, into acquisitive tendencies, the effort to acquire the object (type love) and avertive tendencies, the effort to de¬ stroy or avoid the object (type hate, sub- types anger and fear). These instincts in their primitive mani¬ festations condition the ways of reacting [15]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817432_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
