CONTROL OF INSTINCTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2254, 22 March 1921, Page 4

CONTROL OF INSTINCTS.

The possibility of subduing certain instincts and fostering others was discussed by Professor John Adams, of London University, at the recent conference of Educational Associations in London. Professor Adams said that instinct was not uncommonly described as a sort of hereditary habit. Educators knew they could manage to* manipulate habits, and if instincts were merely habits at long range they could be dealt with in a hopeful way, even if the full results had to bo postponed for generations. By learning the manner and order of development of the various instincts, educators could already exercise a powerful influence on the development of character. By denying certain instincts a proper field of activity and fostering the favourable environment of others much could be done. Future progress must be sought" along the same lines. The instincts might be regarded as tho organised expression of what went on in the unconscious. Among tho analytical psychologists there was a favourite figure of the Titan-within-us. This

Titan might not unfairly be regarded as a personification of instinct, and the psychologists in question indicated that he could be tamed. Instincts might be used and guided, and might be eliminated by directing the vital energy into other channels, but they could not without danger be suppressed by will, whether the will of the educator or the will’of the educand. The plain man's loose everyday speech showed that he believed the instincts could be trained. When he said certain activities “becomo instinctive" he startled the psychologist by his slovenly expression. But was it not just possible that here, as elsewhere, popular speech might express a truth that had escaped the expert?

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