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PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY
instinct or energy. A ‘sublimated’ person is a new creation. The
spiritual life has an origin other than the theory of sublimation
supposes.
When a personality is liberated, whether through psychological
analysis or religious experience, it is often found that sexuality
falls into its natural place and proportion with the rest of life,
because the individual has now become capable of disciplining
his affective life, while sexual fixations and repressions are
dissolved. The result may have the appearance of sublimation,
but in fact the sexual urge itself has in no way been changed into
anything other than it was.
Everyone has at his disposal a certain measure of vital energy.
If he dissipates it in the more primitive forms of activity,
necessarily he loses power, interest and desire for more mature
satisfactions. A certain limitation must be imposed on the
primitive functions if the higher experiences are to be enjoyed;
but this is development or training of personality, not an
‘elevation’ or ‘sublimation’ of the forms of self-expression that have
been restrained. The wealth of experience to be found in art,
science and religion is something as fully human and originally
pure as the sexual and other desires to which ‘no’ must
sometimes be said.
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