SEX BIOLOGY AND SEX PSYCHOLOGY 151 



which the analytical psychologists have opened up 

 to such an extent within the last few years; 1 can 

 only deal with it in the broadest way, and content 

 myself rather with stating than with solving prob- 

 lems. 



As regards the place of sex in our mental organiza- 

 tion, there are two contradictory extremes possible. 

 Either all ideas connected with the physical side of 

 sex may be repressed with great vehemence, and the 

 sexual contribution to various emotions ignored or 

 dismissed, while a constant attempt is made at sub- 

 limation; or else there is little or no repression be- 

 yond that necessitated by convention and custom, 

 sexual matters are taken at their physical face value, 

 and sublimation is not consciously attempted and 

 exists only to a negligible amount. 



There is no doubt that the first alternative repre- 

 sents one of the commonest neuroses of modern life, 

 and one in which an interpretation on principles 

 made familiar by psycho-analysis is the most satis- 

 factory. Repression, through whatever cause initi- 

 ated (and psychologists, I understand, are coming 

 more and more to recognize that chronic misuse of 

 the mind as well as single violent shocks may be 

 effective), leads to a more or less complete dissocia- 

 tion of two parts of the mind, of which one only 

 is in the main connected with the conscious personal 

 life. As a result, curious phenomena are met with. 

 There is, it is true, a constant effort necessary to 

 keep life a-going with the aid of an incomplete men- 



