on the part of the parents, felt as pedantry
by the child, or to otherwise misunderstood action, he opposes a well
known defiance, and there results, as also from the attempt to change in
general the rough path of life, the hopeful attempt to get a creative
"improvement," which I have already discussed. The wish to die sometimes
occurs. Further the obstacles that stand in the way of the full erotic
life in the external world, in so far as they are insuperable or are not
overcome on account of laziness, lead to autoerotism. (That this is found
even in early childhood is for the mechanism of the impulses, a
side-issue. The scheme just given is not to be regarded as a historical or
chronological development, but the tendencies are quite as intimately
connected with each other as with the acquisition of the psychical
restraints that are not generally brought to view; in separating them we
commit something like an error.)

We have considered the following main forces: 1. Removal of obstacles. 2.
Desire for the solicitude of the parents. 3. Desire for the pleasurable
[especially of the woman]. 4. Auto-erotism. 5-6. Improvement and
re-creation. 7. Death wish. The following scheme shows the retrograde
(titanic) as well as the anagogic aspect of these powers, which later
corresponds to an intro-determination of the types, and a species of
sublimation of impulses.

RETROGRADE ASPECT. ANAGOGIC ASPECT.
1. Killing of the father. Killing of the old Adam.
2. Desire for the mother Introversion.
(laziness).
3. Incest. Love towards an Ideal.
4. Auto-erotism. Siddhi.(4)
5. Copulation with the mother. Spiritual regeneration.
6. Improvement. Re-creation.(5)
7. Death wish. Attainment of the ideal.

We need not scent anything extraordinary behind these
intro-determinations, as the scheme is here indeed only roughly sketched;
they take place in each and every one of us, otherwise we should be mere
beasts. Only they do not in every one of us rise to the intensity of the
mystical life.

A more careful inquiry into the mechanism of the psychic powers in the
development of mysticism, would show in greater detail how everything that
happens is utilized toward intro-determination in the process of
education. It would be interesting as an example to discover the
application of the special senses to introversion and ascertain the fate
of the