§ 190
Now the personality in perfect health tends toward the preservation of unity. The man whose love life should include one hundred women would be unable to devote more than one per cent of his libido to one woman. He would be as far from being a unit as, on the supposed scale, he could get. He would be not one personality but a knocked-down pile of parts waiting for a skilled mechanic to assemble.
There are different types of men, those who tend more, and those who tend less, to preserve their own unity of personality.
In general the progress from infancy to adulthood is a progress from partial synthesis to complete synthesis, so that the type of man whose synthesis is incomplete is an infantile and dissociated type of personality; or better than dissociated, he might be called dissipated, disjointed, dismembered, disassembled.
Unfortunately, the infantile condition can completely satisfy, consciously, the infant of adult size. This makes it difficult to approach him, makes him difficult of access. If one present him with a fully developed adult woman, he immediately recoils much farther into his youth which he regards as a fine quality. Because of the uncomfortable nature of the comparison he unconsciously sees his inferiority and unconsciously compensates for it, by getting (in the only way he can) the feeling of satisfaction that comes via mental autoerotism whenever it fails to be obtained from the outside world.
Adult society always produces this reaction somewhere in the sub-adult psyche; so it becomes a great problem, to devise some method for getting the sub-adult to desire to react in adult modes.