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

CONCLUSIONnot indeed measurable, it is a relative changethat causes the trouble, and the subject finds himselfin amountoverburdened in the struggle with this relatively changedamount.this ab-Although it has no objective clinical validity, stract analytical classification may be said to sum up convenientlythe various conditions with which we have beendealing. It indicates the lines on which the treatment ofsexual disturbances in the nervous and psychic sphere, andstill more the hygiene of the sexual life, most properlylie.However sound the individual's constitution may be,the inevitable difficulties of the sexual life, and its constantreadjustments to inner and outer changes in the conditions,involve difficulties of the kind we have dealt with.These difficulties are emphasized when there is an inheritedmorbid predisposition. The sexual impulseis aforce, to some extent an incalculable force, and thestruggle of the man to direct that force, when he and itare both constantly changing, and the conditions underwhich they move are also changing, is inevitably attendedwith peril,even when the impulseis normal or at allevents seeking to be normal.The conditions are still further complicated when theimpulse is abnormal, that is to say when it is not merelyundue in amount or passing into undue channels, butwhen it has definitely taken on an abnormal form, a formwhich may sometimes be congenital, in so far as the formsof the sexual impulse can ever be said to be congenital.It will have become fairly clear that while we set outwithout defining too precisely what we mean by "sex," orwhat Freud calls "libido," the term grows wider as weexamine it.Freud himself has been led to an ever wider[357]