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1. Pichon, Edward. At Ease In Civilization.—Three Conferences given at the Institute in Paris. (1)g The Role of the Œdipus Complex in the Psychic Development of the Human Being. Pichon in this lecture outlines the child's psychosexual development in Freudian terms. He stresses the capital importance of the Œdipus Complex both because it is in this stage that the notion of sex, so important to Western European civilization appears and because by its liquidation quantities of libidinal energy, necessary to the cultural development of man in the intellectual and moral domains, are disengaged and transformed. He calls attention to the fact that the evolution of the two sexes are not revealed as parallel and that this lack of parallelism brings about possible consequences in the psychopathology of masculine and feminine sex. He also notes that in the period of “decarnalization” (a word he prefers to latency period) in civilized man, genitality has a tendency to lose its brutal importance. He uses here the word genitality instead of sexuality used by Jones and Freud, because he considers the two things very different and considers that in our civilization we work to attenuate the brutality of genitality but to exalt, on the contrary, the difference between the sexes, and that the more marked the difference the closer is the ideal of Western civilization approached.
(2) The Rôle Of Sex In Western Civilisation.—Pichon contends that western civilization has, especially in its French form, an essentially se