ABSTRACT
The censor, or suppressive influence of environment, is the great anti-erotic, or anti-libido motive demanding disguise and distortion of natural “sexual” or erotic drives. Any control of human slaves or prisoners by force represents the maximum use of the Compliance motive in controlling human behaviour. Confinement within physical barriers which are far too strong to be overthrown, constitutes one form of dominant stimulus which enforces continuous Compliance upon the persons confined. One individual can use Dominance motives of another person to control that other person’s behaviour by stimulating the other fellow to rash deeds of Dominance or by the method known as “giving him rope enough to hang himself with”. Submission is the most baffling and difficult of human motives to study objectively. Submission is intricately mingled with Compliance in nearly all human behaviour.
