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due to a return of the repressed may be thought of as reasonably well 

 proved. 



It is likewise, characteristic of the Mohave that the repressed mate- 

 rial erupting during drunkenness should be aggressive and orally 

 incestuous or aggressively sexual rather than maturely genital, since, 

 on the whole, the average Mohave appears to have attained a reason- 

 ably high degree of psychosexual maturity. 



SUMMARY 



The historical, sociocultural, ego-psychological and unconscious 

 aspects of Mohave alcoholism have been described and discussed. It 

 was found that drinking has become fairly fully integrated with 

 present-day Mohave culture and with Mohave psychology as well. 

 The absence of a high level of anxiety and the preservation of certain 

 basic cultural attitudes probably explain why, on the whole, the intoxi- 

 cated Mohave is not aggressively antisocial, and why Mohave society 

 has fairly successfully withstood the ravages of alcoholism observed 

 in many other American Indian tribes. 



