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THE HERD AND SEX INSTINCTS.
THE FLAPPER'S FASHIONS AND "GOOD, FORM * AT THE CLUB.
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THE TRUE NATURE OF DREAMS.
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A layman" can generally find a It is due to herd instinct that: good deal of interest in a medical we constantly sacrifice individual Publication. Much is unintel-judgment and desire rather than ligible; he feels as if he were sur separate ourselves from the herd, reptitiously peeping into one of any a man would rather endure
It costs about 8300 per annum to Dr. Faust'a black magic books, and corporal punishment than meet his he extracts a good deal that he fellow-men while wearing brown feed and to clothe one orphan. likes to know. The November nam boote with a morning coat. The Donations can be sent to Mr. P. S. ber of The Caduceus the publica- punishment of the herd for those Cassidy, Messrs. J. D. Hutchison tion of the Hong Kong University who come under its ban is expul. Co., King's Buildings, or to Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Mats Medical Society for example con- sion. That this punishment is a tains a most interesting article on severe one will be readily under thewa, Treasurers of the Diocesan the interpretion of dreams by Dr. stood, for we see its operation in Boys' School or to the flev. W. T
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the case of a man who is "cut" by his old acquaintances, "dropped by his friends, or expelled from his society or club,
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Study It In Hong Kong.
The whale subject of dreams and their significance has attained its p:oper importance in medical science largely through the daring speculations of Freud--at the men There is no better place to ace tion of whose name" certain old
a living example of this faculty fashioned gentleman go purple in carried out to the letter; than in the face, just as their grandfathers the colony of Hong Kong.
The did when Darwin's name was' make a stranger feel at home by. spoken. Dru Canon accepts Freud, inviting him to become one of us, with modifications, and defines a for the evening, and we must all dream as "A symbolic picture of have experienced the misery which the realisation of an conscious accompanies the "feeling that one wish."
is in some way out of it!!! Freud in his great work
idea of oura "did" not go Dress and their interpretation down and was regarded as "bad relates an amusing story of a law-form" OF eccentric whereupon yer who took an exposition of the we found it convenient to drop the theory that a dream is essentially | notion and femain very sensitive a wish almost as personal to any idea that we even ever insult.
thought of such a thing.
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He came next day and said: "1 dreamed last night that I had lost every case I am engaged on. So there's an end to your precious theory."
"Your wish," said Freud. was to prove me wrong."
However to return to Dr. Canon, who says:
Dreams are as important to the mental specialist, as are physical signs and symptoms to the physi- vian the former reveals the state of the mind; the latter the state of the body. But dreams are often more important thin physical signs and symptoms, because the mind goverus the body:-this is a fact which no one can deny,
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Discoveries have been treated in this way, and that we ove muci of knowledge to-day to the fact that the men who made them were,
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sured the physician that her, child was utterly ignorant of the mean- ing of sex. Such teaching should be condemned," and "children when old enough should be openly en lightened on these matters..
How We Hoax Ourselves. The workings of the minds of frail humanity and the little de ceptions which dreams reveal to the ever, is a compelling force within of covertly and in the absence of psychologist are dealt with at him, by virtue of which he disparents and teachers. length. Among them are Dissociapenses with the club, goes through Deception follows as a matter of ties and Rationalisation. A veryment, and even endures the wed-lengths as in the classical case re the conventional period of engage course, and may go on to such conunon form of dissociation con- sisis in the splitting of the mind ding ceremonies. By this method ported of a girl who had sed the into different compartments. The of lawful and conventional maari-life-of-grossest immorality and glaring inconsistencies of conduct Boy, he succeeds in resolving the had given birth to two illegitimate which abound in the lives of most conflict between his sex instinct children, although her mother as of us are examples of this tendency and his herd tradition. The dishonest financier may be in model of propriety in his domestic life, and the fraudulent merchant may devote much of his i gotten guins to charitable and religious purposes. These persons are quite annware of the inconsistency of their acts because of the dissocia tion which has impared the homo- geneity of their mind. There are limits to this process, in & mental- ly healthy man, and even the most inconsistent of mortals must oc casionally" be faced with, say, the contradiction between his religious exercises on a Sunday and bis die honest activities on the following day. Rationalisations are reasons given by an individual for his con- duet which are in reality not reasons at all, but excuses or justifications which are frequently thought of after the event.
The Flapper.
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It is futile to object to Freud's views as to the power of the sex instinet unless one is in some kind of agreement with him as to the sense in which this word is used. He uses the term to cover various
Now take for example the chit- feelings to which we should give dish tendency to show off its naked auch Dunes as friendliness, attrac body, to which we have just refer- tion, modesty, and so forth. red. The ordinary young woman, Whilst it may be argued that or flapper, is not only unconscious Freud's use is too broad, it might of any such tendency (although equally be shown that we use it in such exists), but would strongly re- too narrow a sense. For example,
sent any suggestion that it existed it seems obvious that there must
or had ever existed in her. be a "exual" factor in the regard manifestations, however, are ob- of any man for any woman, yet vious in such details of dress as the average man would feel grossly low necks, short sleeves, abbreviated insulted were it suggested that sex skirts, or absence thereck, and the attraction played any part in his open work or skin coloured, stock- friendly relations with, say the re-ings, most girls, when they sit latives and sisters of his wife.
down usually showing more than This is because he interpret it as
is desired: definite sexual relationships and acts, and nothing more. The as tonishing thing is how any one can possibly fail to appreciate the unique driving and compelling power of the sex instinct, eved
The rationalisations that such things are modern--convenient-in- accordance with the dictates of fashion, are quite satisfactory to them, and serve realization of the real rude asture to prevent any,
consciousnessa,
"One For The Lawyers. Some lawyers are noted for this practice with them of course, it is a practiced art. The dishonest merchant referred to would explain that business is one thing and using the word in the ordinary of these manifestations arising in family life another; that when he Kmited sense. One has observed considera, the unscrupulous methods a girl change from childbood practiced against him, he is really to womanhood under one's very astonished at bis own moderation; own eyes, not referring merely to that all is fair in love and war, bodily changes, remarkable and etc. These statements which rasa striking though these may be, but little or nothing, suffice to persuade the complete alteration in out him that his conduct is devoid of look and behaviour which accom- inconsistency.
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The Dream, According To Freud."
The dream, according to Freud, arises from some of the activities and interests of the day preceding it, and from memories, wishes, and experiences associated therewith. These day remnants" would be elements threatening disturbance A moment's consideration will of sleep, and in using them the They are well seen also in many there is none which is subjected to dian of sleep. They are in the sub- show that of ali human instincts dream shows itself to be the guar- nervous and mental cases-as in the delusions of the melancholic auch intense and prolonged process conscious mind of the dreamer, and patient.
A patient announced of training, refining, and adapting are subjected to distortion in the himself to be Napoleon, and when to the conditions of civilised life production of the dream.
as the sex instinct. In the discus every case this is a mere covering. it was pointed out to him that on the previous day he had called him- sion of herd instinct it was pointed for the central "wish" of the self the Duke of Wellington, he out how it conflicts with the sexual dream, of which we are secretly straightway replied, " but instinct at every point, leaving but ashamed, and that this "wish" is that was by another mother
the one solution of lawful mar- a product of the true unconscious in- One patient explained the fact riage, which does violence to mind-something instinctive, that he was found lying with his either. Now if this is considered fantile, repressed, and almost cer- feet on the pillow and his head at in detail it will be seen that a very tainly sexual. the foot of the bed, by saying "I great part of the whole process of
In
if
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This central "wish" expresses it- am what the doctors call a breech education and training is devoted self by means of a symbol which, case." I thanked him for this in to checking manifestations of the being unintelligible
to the formation!
sa instinct and attempting to dreamer's consciousness, is The hypnotic state may be readapt it to the demands of civiliseded through," as it were, into the garded as an artificially produced society. We may, take as an dream without further distortion. dinnciation, and the remarkable instance the fact that at a certain It is disguised already, becauẾT ol double personality" age, the young child may take a symbolism is the language--the which have been reported are very great delight removing ita only language of the true uncen perfect instances of dissociation in clothes. This endency is very scious The symbols it uses, more promptly and properly checked by over, were not acquired or learned, its most extreme degrees.
those who have the care of it until still lese are they the choice of the finally it conses to appear. The individual and explainable, by his Coming to the subject of immense, majority of children, at personal experiences and nosocia instincts, the study of whose re the time when paberty is reached tions.
The Instincts.
pressions and diversions into new have had it firmly and indelibly They are the birthright of the channels of mental and physical impressed upon them that the unconscious, derived from a time: activity is great field of psycho- whole matter of sex is something when the human race was very an instinct as" An inherent prompt but altogether wicked and wrong, found from, a knowledge of primi- ing to net in a certain way without and only to be spoken or thought tive peoples and languages, fairy deliberation!!
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