Psychoanalysis

ntion from our environment? The answer: brain anaemia, is uns

it coincides with the usual sleeping period and that

however, give a much simpler answer: we go

ture of all nations, fatigue and sleepiness, rest and s

wing a line between physical fatigue and mental fatigue does not simplif

s only caused in a very restricted measure by the accumulat

ng on nothing but his neck and heels; he can even support in that position the weight of a full-sized man. Men on the march can show wonderful endurance provided their "spirits" are kept up by some form of cheer, band music

a continued expenditure of energy, walking, carrying heavy burdens, has induced mus

orm physical activities which

onducive to sleep, the more complete the ex

people can be "to

on known as the "second wind" and which, before Cannon's obser

y exhausted; after which, they suddenly seem to breathe more freely, they overcome their

iation. Asphyxiation and the concomitant fear, liberate adrenin which restores the t

erwise, the organism prepared for a struggle with reality, will not lend itself to a flight from it. Although we are "worn out" we toss about i

which do not really deplete their stores of energy, but which

ily attained through a change of activit

g them, etc., and by five o'clock he feels "tired." He will then go home, change his day suit for evening wear

he wake of a rubber ball. He returns to his work "rested," although he has only exchan

ildly, shout at the tops of their lungs, jostle and fig

activity in the adult do not seem to make re

pt on revolving commercial schemes in their heads or attending business meetings long after their office workers had left. "And yet," they added, "we are not complaining about being tired.

, under the direction of a foreman, performing regular, monotonous tasks, he would break down under the strain of such long hours and would have to "rest" tw

were sufficient to rest him. His life was for many years a continuous round of ego gratifications, won at the c

esire for rest is a desire, not for decr

a certain grade of woollens, certain machinery, a certain customer and perhaps a certain engineer and some financial problem connected with those four thoughts. He must therefore exclude from his mind at the time, thoughts of playing golf, buy

face. Which means that, what tired him, was the fact that he had to keep al

t exercising any censorship on them. It consists in passing from a reduced

sex activities, mental and physical, are constantly struggling for admission to consciousness and for their gratification. They are held down, however, by the

lace mainly while we are resting, although we know of cases when sleep sets in regardless of continued muscular activity, but sleep is not exact

lax our watch on our environment; a feeling of perfect safety; t

defensive contact, on the other hand is attained through our sympathetic nerves which interrupt all the activities which are not necessary for fight or flight. As long as som

emergency. A light burning evenly in our bedroom and not too bright to cause physical pain, will, on the other hand, al

w at regular intervals, or the constant rumble of a neighbouring power house will not pro

le, who keep us on the defensive, may lead to sleeplessness for the rest of the night. A dull book in which nothing happens or i

muscular tension, the blood stream speed which the organism needs in order to cope with possib