Abstract:and others. Holt's adoption of the "wish" in his book on "The Freudian Wish" as the "first key which psychology has ever had which fitted and, moreover, the only one that psychology will ever need" 1,(29, p. vii), indicates the nature of the physiological trend in academic psychology. As to the nature or source of the energy of the wish Holt says: "One will best, I think, not hypothecate to this end any such thing as ' psychic energy,' but look rather, for the energy so expended in the nervous system " (29, p.… Show more
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