ABSTRACT
The stronger the emotional tone, the more closely connected is the complex and the larger number of other subsidiary groups it will call into play and hold together; for again the process of integration is at work; smaller complexes are continually organised into larger ones, and those in which the emotional element is strongest tend to draw others into their influence and give them their own emotional tone. Strong feeling can attach to any of our activities and can organise an emotional complex round anything that we do, making it either into a hated task or a delightful hobby, a piece of unutterable boredom or so absorbing that it fills our thoughts and colours the greater part of experience for us. Many writers use the term ‘complex’ only in the pathological sense of a group of ideas which, because of some unpleasant association, is banished more or less completely from consciousness into the subconscious region of the mind.
