ABSTRACT
The psyche is the source of action, and it is helpful to divide this action into what one might call motor activity, which is geared to survival, and emotional activity, which enables one to relate to others. Emotional activity is always a challenge. Human beings have a natural tendency to be frightened of each other. The one who says yes to the lifegiver has incorporated a source of action. The act of incorporation means that the individual has a mental principle within, and thus the capacity to rise above the conditioning of the social environment. The source of action in the healthy person is from within. The source of action in the narcissistic person is at the surface. The self can be erotized through stimulating the erotogenic zones oneself, or by getting another to do it; but even when the subject does it himself, he has to drum up a fantasy of another who performs for him.
