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means that a cohesion by a chain
of
Unked drives
is
transformed into a system of organized sentiments.
The
up
building
of
sentiments obeys a number of
psychological laws which guide the mental ripening so as to eliminate a
of attitudes, adjustments,
from a given sentiment. The mechanism
and
instincts
of
we found in
it
number
the influence of the social environment,
working through the cultural framework and through direct personal contacts.
The
process of elimination
and impulses from the child
of
relation
certain
attitudes
between father and
and mother and child present a considerable
range of
The systematic organization
possibilities.
may
impulses and emotions
drawing
off
and waning from certain
dramatic shocks, by organized monials,
by
mechanisms we
by
attitudes,
ideals, as in the cere-
and public opinion.
ridicule,
of
be carried out by a gradual
find, for instance,
By
such
that sensuality
gradually eliminated from the child's relation to
is
its
mother, while often tenderness between father and child
is
way
in
replaced
by a
stern
and coercive
relation.
The
which these mechanisms operate does not
lead to exactly the
same
results.
ments within the mind and back to the
And many
in society
faulty cultural
maladjust-
can be traced
mechanism by which
sexuality
is
suppressed and regulated or by which
authority
is
imposed.
great detail in a small
we have presented with number of concrete cases in
This