ABSTRACT
Should an instinct be denied its expression and all ideas connected with it be repressed into the subconscious, trouble will ensue. The problem would prove as intractable in the future as it has in the past were it not that we now know that the law of transmutation of energy from one form to another is as true for psychology as it is for physics. Sex force can be utilised for other purposes than physical reproduction. This process of conversion is technically known as sublimation. This is one of the most important discoveries of modern psychology, for it provides the solution to grave social problems that menace the fabric of civilisation. In dissociation we are dishonest with ourselves, denying that certain qualities exist in our natures; the ideas connected with them are repressed into our subconsciousness, and it is the involuntary subconscious censor that holds them down.
