Part 23 (1/2)
If I dream that my father is dead the Freudians declare that I either wish or, in the past, have wished unconsciously fora ould be changed into a harht I dreamt that an acquaintance, Murray, was dead The first association to Murray was: ”He's a lazy sort of chap” I think that all he stood for was laziness, and he was merely my own laziness sy, for I had been neglecting a task that I should have undertaken
There is what ht be called the cheese-and-tripe supper theory of the drea in drea late supper”
A cheese-and-tripe supper will cause queer dreams, but the advocates of this theory cannot explain why a tripe supper should er Why not a lion or a y that the drea of the unconscious So sleep your spirit leaves your body and seeks the astral plane, but I have never seen anything rese evidence of this Itthe prophetic aspect of dreaht before the Tay Bridge disaster a woman dreamt that it was to take place, and she persuaded her husband not to travel by that ill-fated train, but I cannot vouch for the story I believe, however, that the dreaht is working out the proble over a problem shows that there is a real belief in this aspect I know a lady as undergoing analysis She was suffering from a father complex, that is, her infantile fixation on the father had re or disapproving of everyas he did or did not in some way resemble her father
For a feeeks after the analysis began she was always drea that she was back in her childhood hoet away fro Often the figure in the dream was not the father, but the associations always showed that the figure was standing for the father
One night the figure was the King, and her first association was: ”The King's naeThat's father's name too”
This see to find a solution
The way the unconscious does things is wonderful I re to a lecture by Hoht forward a new theory about education, and it was so deep that I did not quite grasp its est child, was one of the pupils in the school in which I taught That night I drea in the front seat, and behind hiest child” The new theory had becoer brotherin short, Lane's latest Here again I cannot see why any censor should change a theory into a child
In _ I make a very, very poor statement about sex instruction
I say that children should be encouraged to believe in the stork theory of birth until the age of nine That was a wrong belief, but then at that time I had not read Freud or Bloch or Moll I see now that the child should be told the truth about sex whenever he asks for information But I fear, that many modern mothers think that they have sexually educated their child when they tell hiical side of sex is the less ies--pollination of plants, fertilisation of eggs, right up to human birth, but the child will find no help in these informations when he faces his sex instinct at adolescence sex instruction should be psychological; it should deal with the sex instinct as one form of life force or libido The child should be led to face it openly It should be entirely dissociated froiven
Who is to give the instruction? That is the difficulty Most parents and teachers cannot do it because their own sex instinct is all wrong
Make a remark about sex in the company of adults, and it will be reacted to in tays; soh; others will be shocked I hasten to add that the shocked ones are worse than the laughers The laugh is a release of sex repressions; the shocked appearance is a compensation for an unconscious over-interest in sex
Anyway neither type is capable of talking about sex to children, and since huhly divided into prudes and sinners (not saints and sinners), there is little hope of a frank sex education for kiddies
Many people say: ”Oh, leave it to the doctors,” but personally I haven't enough faith in doctors Their attitude to sex is usually no better than the attitude of the layive excellent instruction to children on the physiology of sex, but the only doctors of ical side are psycho-analysts or psycho-therapists of soatively sex activity is a for life interesting enough there is a danger that he will regress to what is called auto-eroticism When we remember that the sexual instinct is the creative instinct, and that creation in dancing or music or poetry or art of any kind is subliher poe can readily see that one of the most important parts of a teacher's job is to provide ways and h, but, as I say, I cannot see the way to a good sex education, until every teacher and parent has discovered his or her own sex co of the sexes affords a harmless and unconscious outlet for sex interest But co-education is no panacea, for the sex problems of the individual child in a co-educational school are alated school
IX
Thisoff for Dundee when Willie Marshall entered the compartment He was dressed in his Sunday best, and I wondered why he was going to Dundee on a Wednesday
”Hullo, Willie!” I cried, ”what's on to-day?”
He looked troubled and angry
”I've been summoned to serve on the jury that's tryin' that dawmed rat that stailt ten pund frae the minister,” he said viciously, ”and I had little need to lose a day, for I hae far mair work than I can dae
Mossbank's twa cairts ca that he maun hae them by the nicht” Willie is a joiner, andcarts
”So you think that Nosie Broon is guilty?” I said with a smile
”Of coorse he is,” he cried with emphasis
”But,” I said seriously, ”you'll runted