ABSTRACT
According to the philosophical anthropology emerging from psychoanalytical theory and elsewhere, the human identity begins with a mutual relationship of love. Since psychoanalysis has come to reject the Freudian hydraulic picture of a 'mighty sexual instinct' which 'may well absorb all the energies of a human being', it has come to see human sexual problems in terms of problems of identity and the search for meaning by 'finding' the 'significant other'. The effect of D. H. Lawrence's work and theories has been in the time to contribute to the widespread belief that people shall be happier if people release their 'instincts'. The 'ethical living' of normal people is based upon concern, the 'formative principle' inherent in the true self, and the acquisition of the values of their culture. Winnicott and Marion Milner both believe that within human beings, even the 'wicked', there is a formative principle and a 'healthy moral sense'.
