ABSTRACT
Modern psychiatric study of the neuroses rather than the psychoses has revealed that relationships with other human beings experienced by the child can be of decisive etiological importance in the neur oses. The psychic content of these relationships both conscious and unconscious were therefore carefully studied. Sigmund Freud, who did pioneer work in this direction, set up a psychological system that explains the development and structure of human relationships. He differentiates a positive and negative component and designates the positive component as sexuality, the negative one as aggression or destruction. These components, their origin, their developmental stages, their combination with one another, their outward manifestations were all arrived at through an analytic study of human experiences.
