Excerpt from The Jung Analysis and Education: Three Lectures Given by Chella Hankin But let us return to the differences between the sensitiveness of the young genius and the neurotic. I, personally, am inclined to believe that, the reason why the outrush from the unconscious is valuable to the one and inimical to the other, is due to the fact that, in the first, the outrush is through and under the control of the cerebro-spinal system, while in the other it is instinctive, and makes use of the sympathetic system. An interesting book has recently been written by Rivers, in which he endeavours to give a biological explanation of the instincts, the disturbance or sup pression of which lead to the neuroses. He divides the instincts into the protopathic type, which uses the autonomous or sympathetic system and the optic thalamus or the old brain as its field of activity, and the epicritic which is concerned with cortical activity. The instincts of the protopathic type and the emotional activities attached to them are immediate and uncontrolled in their action, whilst the instinctive emotional reactions of the epicritic type are capable of gradation in relation to the conditions which call them forth. I just mention these views in passing, as they advance this interesting hypothesis in relation to the two modes of expression of consciousness, and they may, I think, throw some light on the nature of the two types of consciousness which we have just been discussing. Thus we see that the sensitiveness of the genius is to be encouraged, whilst that of the neurotic child is to be discouraged, and an attempt made, figuratively speaking, to render the partition between the conscious and the unconscious less pervious. It is interesting to note that, in relation. To other types of extraordinary ability, Jung would say that mathematics and music Show themselves out in the temperamental types which contact the number or quantity ultimate, whilst painting and architecture are connected with the. Material or quality ultimate. We will now consider the third type of abnormal child; the Child who, although born normal, becomes inharmonious owing to his environment. I will here reiterate what was emphasised in my last lecture, which is the absolute necessity for all those who are in close contact with children of being themselves free from dis harmonies and repressions. Otherwise it is perfectly certain that the school or family which contains such inharmonious conditions will turn out neurotic and repressed children. Jung considers that the influence of the parents is so supreme that, if a neurotic child living with its family is brought to him to analyse, he always considers his chief work to be with the parents, and that the detailed analysis of the child is really unnecessary. In any case he considers the analysis of children very difficult, because children have very little psychology of their own, for they repeat, and even dream about, their parents' conflicts. 'he believes that children who live under what he considers the unnatural conditions of the boarding-school, do develop in an embryonic way conflicts of their own, and in consequence it is often necessary to analyse them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.