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After reviewing the significance of hair in history and legend, the author considers the impulses which lead young American males to wear long hair. He is more interested, however, in the reaction of adults and concludes that the projective response to long hair on an adolescent male is 'the result of an intensive challenge to the success of repression by an adult of his own primitive drives, both aggressive and sexual.'