Love, not fear, is the dominant inhibitor of instinct. Patriarchal suppression operates as a complementary variable to maternal repression. The idea 'mother would never consent' is the conclusive barrier to the Oedipus wish. Freud's principle of patriarchal repression accounts for the neuroses: maternal repression accounts for health. The clue to the psychoses is to be sought in disturbance of the relation to the mother. The infant is a naïve solipsist. Instinct in infancy is de-specialized, 'melted down into a formless attachment to the mother to be directed later upon the outer world under the stimulus of her interests and guided by her experience'. Aggression is the obverse of all thwarted instinct. The death instinct and all its variants are aspects of thwarted conation in general, and not concrete components of mind.