[73] "Conflict" and "repression" are the terms in current usage by psychiatrists of the Freudian school to explain the mechanism of psychoneurotic disturbance.
[74] It should be noted that this is an inverted form of cosmic suggestion which exerts a considerable influence over certain dispositions; very often this bias is confined to one or two subjects only in which an individual is particularly interested, and in connexion with which a permanently repellent autosuggestion is developed. Some writers have spoken of this as contra-suggestion. On these subjects any suggestion conveyed by word or sign provokes an immediate and unthinking contradiction or an unreasoning hostile attitude or tendency.
[75] Préface à "Bajazet."
[76] The æsthetic emotions are dealt with at length by Dr. Bain in "The Emotions and the Will," chap. xiv.
[77] I.e. processes of the conscious or objective mind.
[78] There are a few notable exceptions where this instinct appears to be deficient among primitive and nomadic tribes. McDougall instances the Punaris of Borneo.
[79] "Social Psychology," p. 100.
[80] "The Free Press," 1918.
[81] Mr. Hughes, March 11, 1918.
[82] Gustave Le Bon.