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CONCLUSIONThe animals with primeval autonomic systems which felttensions of distress sought to protect themselves, and bysurviving through the relief of these tensions transmittedthem to higher organisms. We are thus helped to bringinto line somatic causation and psychic causation andto understand the individual working as a unit. We arefurther helped to greater precision in the conceptionof the conations and desires, the libido if we prefer toterm it, or the Schopenhaurian Will to which the philosophersof the sexual impulse are apt to appeal. AsCarlyle long ago wrote: "Perhaps the notablest God wehear tell of is one of whom Grimm the German Etymologistfinds trace: the God Wiinsch or Wish."With his usual powers of luminous expression, Freudlong since (1912) set forth the varying conditions underwhich the difficulties of the sexual life may lead to nervousdisorder, and his exposition is the more important sincemay be held to stand independently of many psycho-itanalytic doctrines which are in dispute. Freud himselfadmitted that it is unsatisfactory as a clinical classificationof cases since the same case may exhibit the various conditionsat different times, or even to some extent at thesame time; but it is useful in helping us to a knowledgeof those conditions. Four types thus become recognizable,(i)The simplest and most obvious sexual occasion ofneurotic disorder an occasion to which most people arein some degree liable is that of denial; the subjectishere quite healthy so long as his need of love is satisfiedin a real object in the outer world; and only becomesobject without any ade-neurotic when deprived of thisquate compensation; under these circumstances there aretwo possibilities of preserving health in spite of the denialof sexual needs: either the psychic tension isdirected towardsactivity in the practical world and finally finds a[355]