ABSTRACT
In a famous passage in New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Freud (1933) cautioned against reliance on his theory of instincts: “The theory of the instincts is so to say our mythology. Instincts are mythical entities, magnificent in their indefiniteness. In our work, we cannot for a moment disregard them, yet we are never sure that we are seeing them clearly” (p. 95).
