The application of these assumptions to the case of the predominant
investigation-impulse seems to be subject to special difficulties, as one is
unwilling to admit that this serious impulse exists in children or that children
show any noteworthy sexual interest. However, these difficulties are easily obviated. The untiring pleasure in
questioning as seen in little children demonstrates their curiosity, which is
puzzling to the grown-up, as long as he does not understand that all these
questions are only circumlocutions,abstract oil painting, and that they cannot come to an end because
they replace only one question which the child does not put. When the child
becomes older and gains more understanding this manifestation of curiosity
suddenly disappears. But psychoanalytic investigation gives us a full
explanation in that it teaches us that many, perhaps most children, at least the
most gifted ones, go through a period beginning with the third year, which may
be designated as the period of infantile sexual investigation. As far as
we know, the curiosity is not awakened spontaneously in children of this age,
but is aroused through the impression of an important experience,oil paintings online, through the
birth of a little brother or sister, or through fear of the same endangered by
some outward experience, wherein the child sees a danger to his egotistic
interests. The investigation directs itself to the question whence children
come, as if the child were looking for means to
guard against such undesired event. We were astonished to find that the child
refuses to give credence to the information imparted to it, e.g., it
energetically rejects the mythological and so ingenious stork-fable, we were
astonished to find that its psychic independence dates from this act of
disbelief,oil paintings, that it often feels itself at serious variance with the grown-ups,
and never forgives them for having been deceived of the truth on this occasion.
It investigates in its own way, it divines that the child is in the mother's
womb, and guided by the feelings of its own sexuality, it formulates for itself
theories about the origin of children from food, about being born through the
bowels, about the rôle of the father which is difficult to fathom, and even at
that time it has a vague conception of the sexual act which appears to the child
as something hostile, as something violent. But as its own sexual constitution
is not yet equal to the task of producing children, his investigation whence
come children must also run aground and must be left in the lurch as unfinished.
The impression of this failure at the first attempt of intellectual independence seems to be of a persevering and
profoundly depressing nature. oil painting reproductions
If the period of infantile sexual investigation comes to an end through an
impetus of energetic sexual repression, the early association with sexual
interest may result in three different possibilities for the future fate of the
investigation impulse. The investigation either shares the fate of the
sexuality, the curiosity henceforth remains inhibited and the free activity of
intelligence may become narrowed for life; this is especially made possible by
the powerful religious inhibition of thought, which is brought about shortly
hereafter through education. This is the type of neurotic inhibition. We know
well that the so acquired mental weakness furnishes effective support for theoutbreak of a neurotic disease. In a second type
the intellectual development is sufficiently strong to withstand the sexual
repression pulling at it. Sometimes after the disappearance of the infantile
sexual investigation,oil paintings for sale cheap, it offers its support to the old association in order to
elude the sexual repression, and the suppressed sexual investigation comes back
from the unconscious as compulsive reasoning, it is naturally distorted and not
free, but forceful enough to sexualize even thought itself and to accentuate the
intellectual operations with the pleasure and fear of the actual sexual
processes. Here the investigation becomes sexual activity and often exclusively
so, the feeling of settling the problem and of explaining things in the mind is
put in place of sexual gratification. But the indeterminate character of the
infantile investigation repeats itself also in the fact that this reasoning
never ends, and that the desired intellectual feeling of the solution constantly
recedes into the distance. By virtue of a special disposition the third, which
is the most rare and most perfect type,hand painted oil paintings, escapes the inhibition of thought and
the compulsive reasoning. Also here sexual
repression takes place, it is unable, however, to direct a partial impulse of
the sexual pleasure into the unconscious, but the libido withdraws from the fate
of the repression by being sublimated from the beginning into curiosity, and by
reënforcing the powerful investigation impulse. Here, too, the investigation
becomes more or less compulsive and a substitute of the sexual activity, but
owing to the absolute difference of the psychic process behind it (sublimation
in place of the emergence from the unconscious) the character of the neurosis
does not manifest itself, the subjection to the original complexes of the
infantile sexual investigation disappears, and the impulse can freely put itself
in the service of the intellectual interest. It takes account of the sexual
repression which made it so strong in contributing to it sublimated libido, by
avoiding all occupation with sexual themes. wholesale oil paintings
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