8. Unsatisfied Wishes and Sublimation - Square Circles Publishing

SOURCE 8: THE MIND AT MISCHIEF
The sucking instinct is strongly inborn as
a part of the nutrition instinct, and it is
probably connected with some sort of
personality satisfaction; but I see no
reason for such labored arguments to
prove it has a sex significance.
8:3.5 Thus, while I recognize the
existence of such a grouping of psychic
powers in the human mind as Freud
designates by the term libido, I do not
assign to it anything like the all-dominant
role that Freud does. I prefer to discuss
each case in the light of the actual
findings in it—findings which can be
naturally and easily recognized, and
which do not require that we assume so
much of Freudian philosophy and
terminology.
T H E E G O I N F R E U D I A N
PSYCHOLOGY (Mitchell 73)
THE FREUDIAN EGO
8:4.1 In the study and treatment of a
certain group of psychic conflicts, it is
sometimes well to view the human mind
after the manner of the later Freudian
concept of a limited libido and the ego.
[T]wo sets of forces seemed to be
concerned in all the mental processes
which the analyst had to study.
This concept of psychic activity consists
in dividing the mental life into the
following two groups:
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