Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN YOUTHdifference to the sexual stimulus of familiar persons whichmay easily exist and sometimes indeed is peculiarly strong.Others have rightly insisted that incest isunlikely toproduce the best offspring or to result in domestic peace,and that exogomy is a highly important factor in socialevolution. These influences may very well be responsiblefor the incest-taboo and remained responsible for maintainingit. But they could hardly have arisen except uponthe foundation and by the support of the undoubtedpsychic tendency to which I have called attention. Socialinstitutions are never unnatural in origin; they can onlyarise on a natural basis. In primitive life, moreover, wefind, as Crawley points out, a naive desire to assist Nature,as it were, by adding to what is normal the categoricalimperative of custom and law.Today we may look back serenely on the CEdipus complexand the ferocious reactions it seems to have evoked.are viewed directly and simply, withoutWhen the factsany attempt to make them look either terrifying or grandiloquent,or to generalize them into universal doctrines, itis easy to discover the very natural fact that the youngboy is attracted to his mother (the corresponding phenomenonis the attachment of the young girl to herfather) and is jealous at first of what distracts his mother'sattention away from him. Jealousyis an entirely naturalprimitive emotion; every dog is inclined to growl at aseeming attempt to share his bone; any cat may be displeasedat the effort of a strange cat to share her plate.Many of us even the most normal and least neuroticcan recall, or have been told, that in early childhood wedisapproved at first of the appearance of a baby brotheror sister. But we can also recall that in a very short timewe were completely reconciled to the new phenomenonand were even proud to assist in lovingly tending it.[95]Any