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is an end in view the progress of the organism towards 

 something which Freud does not define, but which must 

 be adaptation, and which, hence, in accordance with 

 our earlier arguments 1 , I unhesitatingly call freedom. 

 And progress depends on what the organism is and has 

 achieved, and so on its whole past. 



(2) What then is the censor? Freud himself com- 

 pares the objects of our 'internal perception,' as he calls 

 it all psychic formations, that is to the images pro- 

 duced by the lenses of a telescope, the lenses represent- 

 ing the psychic perceptions, and the censor correspond- 

 ing to the refraction of the light by the telescope-lenses 

 (op. cit. p. 484). Indeed he is inclined to believe in two 

 refractive systems or censors, that between what he, 

 in his peculiar terminology, calls the "unconscious" 

 and the " foreconscious " (which is itself not in con- 

 sciousness, but in which an accessible stream of psychic 

 reactions continually flows, doing mind-work, and giving 

 rise to fresh psychic formations) and that between the 

 foreconscious and the conscious (op. cit. p. 490). The 

 importance and the weakness of this idea of double cen- 

 sorship is discussed in an appendix. For our immediate 

 purpose we need only point out that ultimately the censor 

 is seen to be exercising a function which is directed to- 

 wards definite ends. Indeed, it seems to me that we 

 cannot define it except as the organism's recognition of 

 an end in life. It is the unconscious self -judgment of the 

 individual in his capacity of a believer in ends 2 . Certain 

 things cannot pass the censor because it or he im- 

 poses the claims of safety, of social utility, of religion. 



In the animal and the child the phenomena of censor- 

 ship are absent. These only come with a stage of 

 development when other ends besides the immediate 



1 Evolution and the Need of Atonement. 



* See however Appendix A for a fuller discussion of the matter. 

 The problem is one which is essentially intricate and obscure. 



