ABSTRACT

C. G. Jung defends the extension of the concept of sexuality which Freud deemed necessary, but does so in a most challengeable manner. Thus he says that the psycho-analytical school means by sexuality the instinct of the preservation of the species. The relevant views of Freud about erotogenic zones and partial instincts are so incompletely described that no one can obtain a true understanding from what he says. Jung then gives the following resume: 'According to this way of thinking, therefore, the later normal and monomorphous sexuality consists of various components. First of all, it falls into a homo- and a hetero-sexual component, to which is added an auto-erotic component as well as different erotogenic zones'. Infantile sexuality, the unconscious, repression, the concept of psycho-sexuality, the wish-fulfilment theory of the dream and of the neuroses—all these indispensable concepts of psycho-analysis have partly disappeared, and partly shrunk into insignificance.