ABSTRACT
The development of the far more exact approach through factor analyses of measured behaviour manifestations, particularly by P-technique, promises to place the analysis of dynamic structure on an entirely new level of objectivity and precision. If the development of dynamic trait structures is largely the story of conflict and adjustment between innate drives and the demands of environment—chiefly the cultural pattern, it is obviously of crucial importance to know what form the innate drives would naturally assume if uninterrupted. The super-ego structure, however, arises from the reward of so many motives—affection, fear, gregariousness and self-assertion, for example—that some of its manifestations could be conditioned very early. If the super-ego has any title to being a functional unity it should show itself in correlated behaviour. The immature self-assertive drive, according to psycho-analysts, is ‘secondary’ narcism, a part of the narcistic libido which aims at the success and perfection of the idealized self.
