ABSTRACT
The sexual component-instinct of scopophilia, or pleasure in looking, is—like its counterpart, exhibitionism, or pleasure in displaying—subject to numerous restrictions and transformations. Under normal conditions both instincts, which are allowed free expression in early childhood, are subjected to a considerable measure of repression and sublimation later on. In psycho-neurotics these instincts are inhibited and transformed to a very much greater degree than in normal people; while at the same time they carry on a continual struggle against the forces of repression.
