If, as is here maintained, the individual child re-creates such sym- bolism anew, i.

E.

If he (largely unconsciously) perceives these com- parisons which are alien to the adiilt conscious mind, then it is plain that we shall have radically to revise our conception of the infantile mind, and especially in regard to sexuality.

This has already been done by Freud on other grounds, after he had empirically discovered from psycho- analyses that the unconscious mind of the child, and even the conscious one, is much more sexual in character than had ever been supposed 2.

In fact, the whole process to which he has given the name sublimation 3 , is probably an ontogenetic repetition of the one just described, whereby sexual energy is gradually drained into other non-sexual channels.