Throughout history two factors have been at work in the struggle to bring about the control and discipline of these non-personal, instinctive forces of the psyche. For with the coming of consciousness, cultural and psychological values began to compete with the purely biological aims of unconscious functioning. In creating civilization man sought, however unconsciously, to curb these natural forces and to channel some part at least of their energy into forms that would serve a different purpose. But were they left to function unchecked, life would lose its meaning, being reduced once more to mere birth and death, as in the teeming world of the primordial swamps. They are for the most part unseen, yet on their urge and energy life itself depends: without them living beings would be as inert as stones. īENEATH the decent façade of consciousness with its disciplined moral order and its good intentions lurk the crude instinctive forces of life, like monsters of the deep-devouring, begetting, warring endlessly. The forms that swim and the shapes that creep Under the waters of sleep. THE Source OF PSYCHIC ENERGY I Introduction
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