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PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXreal satisfaction of sexual desire, or, such satisfaction beingrenounced, the inhibited desires are sublimated intoenergy which is directed to non-erotic ends. In this processthere is a possibility of what C. G. Jung termed introversion,that is to say, the inhibited sexual impulse insteadof being sublimated may be turned from real channelsinto imaginative channels where it occupies itself withdream-wishes. (2)In the cases of the second type theindividual becomes morbid, not through any change inthe outer world replacing satisfaction bythe need forrenunciation, but by his own inner efforts to attain satisfactionin the outer world. The subject becomes disorderedby the inner difficulties which he finds in adapting himselfto the real world and by his efforts to attain a normalmethod of sexual satisfaction which he is still unfitted for.(3) The next class of cases, in which various disordersoccur through inhibition of development, is really anextreme group of the second class, and there is no theoreticalground for considering them separately, the sexualfixed on infantile aims which nosatisfaction remaininglonger accord with the individual stage of development,and the conflict arises in the effort to subdue the outgrowninfantile impulses which still seek gratification. (4)In thefourth class of cases we find individuals who were formerlyhealthy becoming morbid without any change in theirrelation to the external world. But, on more careful examination,it is found that there has been, in consequenceof biological changes such as the attainment of a certainperiod of life (puberty or the menopause) , a change inthe amount of sexual desire, this alone serving to destroythe balance of health and to introduce the conditions forthe occurrence of neurosis. The inhibition of the sexualimpulse through the external inability for its satisfactionhere becomes pathogenic; the amount of sexual desire is[356]