Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after / by William A. White.

  • William Alanson White
Date:
1919
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Credit: Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after / by William A. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the lower animals which make up be¬ havior. They cause all of those more or less complicated series of activities that produce the phenomena of mating and all those subsidiary activities including the care of the young, and those other activi¬ ties that have to do with attacking and overcoming other animals either for food or as enemies, and the means of escape, flight, etc., from enemies of overwhelming strength. The progress of mankind from savagery to civilization does not consist in the de¬ struction of these instincts, but in the sup¬ pression—repression—of the primitive ways of satisfying them and the utilization of the energies so repressed to find satis¬ faction in ways that are progressively more and more removed from the primi¬ tive types. This is the process of sublima- [16]