The psycho-analytic study of the familyFlugel, J. C. (John Carl)
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The psycho-analytic study of the family
Flugel, J. C. (John Carl)
Families; Marriage; Parent and child; Psychoanalysis
[Footnote 136: I am indebted to my friend Major O. Berkeley-Hill for
the suggestion that the attraction which women often feel for men of a
racially more primitive type, and the corresponding jealousy that the
(often subconscious) perception of this attraction arouses in men of the
women's own race, are among the most important factors which prevent
the reconciliation or co-operation of different races and which are the
cause of much of the brutality and violence which a superior race is apt
to exercise towards an inferior one. (_Cp._ the frequent lynchings of
negroes for real or supposed sexual offences in America, or the anti-negro
or anti-Chinese riots that are of not infrequent occurrence in English
seaport towns.) If this should be true (and there can be little doubt that
it applies to certain cases) it would appear that we are dealing with a
psychological fact possessing historical and sociological bearings of even
wider significance than would at first appear--bearings which must be kept
in mind in all attempts to produce rapprochement or better understanding
between the different races of mankind. (For a study of the tendency in
question in individual cases _Cp._ the novels of Robert Hichens, _e. g._
"Bella Donna" and "Barbary Sheep")]
[Footnote 137: A very interesting case illustrative of the rescue and
prostitute phantasies will be found in Ernest Jones. "Einige Fälle von
Zwangsneurose," _Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische und Psychopathologische
Forschungen_, 1913, V, 55.]
[Footnote 138: This psychic tendency must of course be distinguished from
the sexual jealousy so characteristic of paranoia, which has been shown
to be due to repressed homosexuality, the paranoiac projecting on to his
wife or paramour the tender feelings towards some person or persons of his
own sex, which he himself harbours in his Unconscious. (_Cp._ Ferenczi,
"Contributions to Psycho-Analysis," trans. by Ernest Jones, Ch. XI, p. 238
ff.)
Both the importance and the incestuous origin of this desire for chastity
are clearly demonstrated by the infrequently recurring theme of the Virgin
Mother in religion and mythology. _Cp._ below Ch. XIV.]
[Footnote 139: An interesting historical case of one whose career was
probably influenced to a large extent by quite a number of the unconscious
motives discussed in this chapter is that of King Henry VIII of England.
See J.C. Flügel, "On the Character and Married Life of Henry VIII." _The
International Journal of Psycho-Analysis_, 1920, I, 24.]
CHAPTER XII
FAMILY INFLUENCES IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
[Sidenote: Displacements of hate less complex than those of love]
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