[218] It is of course true that with a system of group marriage the opportunities for sexual relations among young people may sometimes be no greater than under monogamy, since all the available women may be regarded as belonging exclusively to a certain class of men—usually those who have attained a certain age. The hatred and jealousy aroused in the young men towards their elders may in such cases be equal in intensity to those felt under monogamic conditions, but the fact remains that this hatred is no longer intimately connected with the family (at any rate as we understand that institution at the present day).
[219] Wundt. Op. cit. 34 ff.
[220] Wundt. Op. cit. 311 ff.
[221] This is of course specially the case where the moral code upheld by the parents is one of unnecessary or extreme severity, in which almost every natural manifestation of youthful joy, or vitality is condemned; as is sometimes the case, for instance, with parents of an ultra-puritanical way of thinking, whose own mental life, however admirable in other respects, has been warped by excessive inhibitions. Although marked perhaps by less bitterness than is usual in such cases, Edmund Gosse's remarkable work "Father and Son" affords much interesting ground for thought in this connection.
[222] e. g. "Zur Einführung des Narzißmus." Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse, 1914, VI, 5 ff.
[223] Psychiatric Bulletin, I, No. 1; "The Psychology of War," 49.
[224] "Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War," 79 ff.
[225] "The Psychology of Insanity," 167 ff.
[226] Cp. in this connection Abraham, "Untersuchungen über die früheste prägenitale Entwicklungstufe der Libido", Zeitschrift für ärztliche Psychoanalyse, 1916, IV. Also Freud, "Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre", IV, 274.
[227] "Social Psychology", 91.