Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-10 | Page 56 | Repression of Activity Worse that Tortures of the Middle Ages

REPRESSION of Activity WORSE Than TORTURES of the Middle Ages gggBga Writ IHfemmm TTie automobile, says writer at Johns Hopkins University, has freed woman from age-long submersion of desires for a varied life work under a system which has held her prisoner. v and less open unless they are to act as concealers con-cealers of the wish? Indeed, the dreams of adults are full of meaning and are log ical ; there is a wish in every dream and the wish is fulfilled in the dream. The reason dreams appear illogical is due to the fact that if the wish were to be expressed ex-pressed in its logical form it would not square with our everyday habits of thought and action. We should be disinclined to admit even to ourselves that we have such dreams. Immediately upon waking only so much of the dream is remembered that is, put" into ordinary speech as will square with our life at the time. The dream is 'censored, ' in other words." The writer then relates how, after living liv-ing on canned goods for two months in the Dry Tortugas, he dreamed every night of food. Had he repressed the dream and never spoken of it he believes he would soon have ceased to remember it, although it would still reappear until he got a square meal. We dream habitually he says, of the things which we cannot have. But only where the Wished-for things are compatible with our daily code are they remembered on awaking as they were dreamed. Society, So-ciety, for instance, will .not allow the unmarried un-married woman to have children, however keen her desire for them. Hence y her dreams in which the wish is gratified are remembered meaningless words and symbols. sym-bols. "A few illustrations," says Professor arson, "may neip in unaersLancuug now thwarted tendencies may lay the basis for. the so-called unfulfilled wish which later appears in the dream. Sometimes on account ac-count of the care of a mother or of younger brothers and sisters a young man cannot marry; such a course of action necessarily leaves any unfulfilled wishes and frustrated impulses in its train. Again an individual marries, and without even admitting to himself that his marriage is a failure he gradually shuts himself off from any emotional emo-tional expression protects himself from the married stare by sublimating his natural nat-ural domestic ties; usually in some kind .of engrossing work, but often in questionable ways by hobbies, speed manias and excesses ex-cesses of various kinds." Xo suggestion is ventured that all women motorists are unhappily married, but many of them find the auto the handiest way for releasing energies otherwise restrained re-strained by custom and social heritage.