Instincts, however, are highly conservative and of extreme antiquity
Instincts, however, are highly conservative and of extreme antiquity Undiscovered Self Since the normal fantasies of a child are nothing other, at bottom, than the imagination born of the instinctive impulses, and may thus be regarded as preliminary exercises in the use of future conscious activities, it follows that the fantasies of the neurotic, even though pathologically altered and…



