EDITED BY ERNEST JONES
No. 3
BY
J. C. FLÜGEL B. A.
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology, University College, London.
Sometime John Locke Scholar in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford.
Honorary Secretary of the International Psycho-Analytical Association.
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I refer to those appetites which bestir themselves in sleep;when, during the slumbers of that other part of the soul, whichis rational and tamed and master of the former, the wild animalpart, sated with meat and drink, becomes rampant, and pushingsleep away, endeavours to set out after the gratification ofits own proper character. You know that in such momentsthere is nothing that it dares not do, released and deliveredas it is from any sense of shame and reflection. It does notshrink from attempting in fancy unholy intercourse with amother, or with any man or deity or animal whatever; andit does not hesitate to commit the foulest murder, or to indulgeitself in the most defiling meats. In one word, there is nolimit either to its folly or its audacity.
PLATO, "Republic," Book IX.
Man, forsooth, prides himself on his consciousness! Weboast that we differ from the winds and waves and fallingstones and plants, which grow they know not why, and fromthe wandering creatures which go up and down after theirprey, as we are pleased to say without the help of reason.We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why wedo it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the viewwhich is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less consciousthoughts and our less conscious actions, which mainlymould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
SAMUEL BUTLER, "The Way of All Flesh,"
Chapter III.
The circumstances that have led to the production ofthis little book are, I think, sufficiently explained in the introductorychapter; there is, therefore, no need to dwell uponthem here. It is only necessary perhaps to warn the readerthat he will find in what follows but little that is original.With the exception of small contributions and suggestions uponspecial points, in the last few chapters alone does there existanything that has not already found a place in the literaturedealing with the subject; and probably it will be the earlierrather than the later portions of the book that will most oftenbe consulted. Nevertheless, a work of compilation, such as thepresent for the most part aims at being, may have its justificationand a certain sphere of usefulness; especially so perhaps in thepresent case, since a certain proportion of the original papersto which reference is here made is contained in books andperiodicals that have at no time been readily accessible to theEnglish-speaking public and were for some years practicallyunobtainable.
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