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Character—Continued dynamic concept, 113 effect of body inadequacy on, 26 evolution of a typical neurotic, 125-9 final test of a trait, 142 formation of, 21-2, 226 good and bad, 116-18, 147, 154 how to analyse, 129-33, I^4 humour a determinant, 187 methods of evaluating, 116 reaction to environment, 134-6 result of inbreeding, 227 traits furthering a false sense of superiority, 151 traits that most frequently lead to unhappiness, 137 variation from the ideal norm, 118- 29 worry, as a trait, 155-9 (see also Emotion and Personality) * Charcot, Jean Martin, hysteria common in the days of, 243 Charity, effective, 339 Children, dangers in formal education, 68-73 goal setting, no importance of memories, 177-80 inability of pampered children to be happy in marriage, 320 incompleteness of infancy, 16 lengthening dependence of human, 27,223 masturbation, 235, 237 methods of compensation, 85-9 necessity of early communal educa¬ tion, 227-8 neurosis begins among, 290 psychic effects of family position, 54-7, 3°7 romanticism the sexual life of the adolescent, 247 social adjustment largely determined by parental education, 63-8 training formula of spoiled, 173 unfortunate sexual experiences, 74 valuable information on sexual subjects withheld from, 301 Chivalry, as a sexual aberration, 243 Chopin, Frederic Francois, 53 Christ, preachings, 46 Christian Science, as a false precedure for treating neuroses, 287-9 Claustrophobia, 266 Clothes, as means for social inter¬ course, 305 Common sense, v. private logic, Compensation, 77-108 as a function of the total personality, 83-5 by seeking a situation in which the defective organ is advantageous, 83 by substituting the functions of a healthy organ for an inferior one, 82 by training of the defective organ or faculty, 80-2 characteristics of good, 100 cult of money as a fiction of power, 105 false, 99-102, 122, 136 for being pampered, 88 for every inferiority, 28, 78 for organic deficiencies, 25, 27, 28 for physical inferiorities, 114 fundamental techniques of, 93 general laws of successful, 107-8 hobbies as a form of, 95-8 illness as a means to, 125-9 in city life, 96 left-handedness, 82 need for creative inner, 95-6 of individual inadequacies, 17 social life as a, 20, 29, 85-8 tendency of the means to annihilate and replace the end, 102-5 typical life patterns, 101-2 Competition, cause of sexual, 308-19 valid, as a natural stimulus to human growth, 317 Conation (see Hormic psychology) Conflict, a means of avoiding the solution of problems, 145 as neurotic “ arrangement ”, 144 cases of, 143 in hesitation neurosis, 273-5 sense of guilt related to, 146 universality of subjective, 142 Confucius, 46 Constipation, neurotic, 276 Contraception, essential to modern civilization, 306 psychological basis of legal pro¬ scription, 307 Controversy, discretion the equivalent of social valour, 350 quibbles about right and wrong, 349-51 Conversions, minor, 244 Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, 5 3 Courage, important in self-sculpture, 6 Craftsmanship, essential to self-sculp¬