PART 2. DISORDERS OF THE INSTINCTS 



AGGRESSION AND GUILT 



Aggressivity, as well as feelings of guilt over real or imaginary 

 acts of aggression, play a decisive role in the etiology of mental dis- 

 orders. In fact, even manifestly sexual derangements are due pri- 

 marily to a contamination of sexuality by aggression. Hence, in a 

 broadly theoretical sense, it is not really legitimate to single out cer- 

 tain psychiatric disorders as being caused by conflicts related to ag- 

 gressivity, since problems related to aggressivity are present, to a 

 variable extent, also in every other psychiatric illness. 



On the other hand, the Mohave themselves seem dimly aware of 

 the fact that certain mental disorders are especially likely to affect 

 persons who engage in certain aggi'essive activities, or fear retribution 

 for real, magical, or miconscious acts of aggression, or seek to inhibit, 

 but not sublimate, their aggressive impulses. Suicide also results from 

 aggression, which is first directed at others and then, self-punitively, 

 at oneself. However, for reasons of expository convenience, occur- 

 rences which the Mohave define as suicide will not be discussed in this 

 section, but in part 7, and will therefore not be included in the follow- 

 ing classification of disorders related to problems of aggression. 



Neuroses and psychoses related primarily to aggression may be 

 classified as follows : 



A. Pathological outbursts of homicidal rage : 



(1) Pi-ipa : teeva : ram : People scarcity 



B. Pathological sequelae of socially approved aggression : 



(1) Against game: Hunter's neurosis 



(2) Against the outgroup : Scalper's psychosis 



(3) Against antisocial members of the ingroup: Witchkiiler's psychosis 



C. Pathological sequelae of hyperactivity, which is apparently equated with 

 aggression : 



(1) An illness of ordinary active persons 



(2) The god Mastamho's psychosis 



(3) The psychopathology of singers 



(4) The corruption of shamanistic powers 



D. Pathological sequelae of inhibited aggressivity or power : 



(1) Heartbreak (= jealousy) : Hi : wa itck. (See also pt. 3, pp. 91-106) 



(2) Psychoses resulting from the inhibition of magical powers 



E. Pathological sequelae of imagined counteraggression on the part of hated 

 aliens (a paranoid mechanism) (pt. 4, pp. 128-150) : 



(1) Disease from aliens : Ahwe : hahnok 



(2) Disease from enemy ghosts : Ahwe : nyevedhi : 



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