This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII PSYCHOANALYSIS The profound extent to which thought is colored and influenced by sex is demonstrated by many outward signs. In the first place, what people talk about they think about. Considerations of custom or tact usually prevent open talk on intimate sexual matter in polite social ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII PSYCHOANALYSIS The profound extent to which thought is colored and influenced by sex is demonstrated by many outward signs. In the first place, what people talk about they think about. Considerations of custom or tact usually prevent open talk on intimate sexual matter in polite social gatherings. But as soon as the restraints are removed, the conversation nearly always veers around to sex. When people get to know each other well enough to lower the barriers of reserve, somehow sex seems to be an easy subject to talk about; which means that sex thought is interesting to most people. The most popular books and plays are those known to major the sex element. There are very few successful books or plays without at least something of love or sex in them. Even the powerful and unique Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde had to have a love episode added when it was put on the stage; and as a matter of fact it did add dramatic force and interest to the play. A thrilling exception is Lord Dunsany's A Night at an Inn. But imagine a grand opera without love scenes! When all other signs of universal sex interest have been noted and listed, the most convincing of all signs is the remarkable interest now shown in books on psychoanalysis. Why should that be so when psychoanalysis is merely a development of analytic psychology? Why is psychoanalysis so much more popular than straight psychology? Why do even commonplace books on psychoanalysis outsell a really valuable book like William James' Shorter Course in Psychology? Simply because psychology appeals only to the intellect, while psychoanalysis appeals also to the emotions, and particularly to emotions inspired from sex considerations. There is the answer. People who would have been bored to death...
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