ABSTRACT
Possessed of sufficient idea of the ergic nature of man, and the metanergic structures of ego, super-ego, self-sentiment and the general sentiments which derive from ergs, the student is ready to examine more closely the processes of derivation. New dynamic traits and habits begin, therefore, with ‘conflict’ with the external world. Usually the clinical psychologist starts his study with observations of internal conflict in the neurotics who constitute his ‘population’. Dynamic psychology at present suffers from a chaos of terms and formulations. The more exact meanings behind popular usage will be developed on the basis of a new formulation of dynamic learning in terms of ‘adaptation-adjustment paths and crossroads’. The path of adaptation-seeking, which may end in adjustment or maladjustment, can be systematically analysed into several ‘adaptation crossroads’ at each of which some two to four alternative paths are open.
