
Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo, & The Stimulus Struggle
Revolution and Ideology
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The Fourth Part of the Stimulation Struggle
This is called the overflow principle. If the internal urge to perform some activity becomes too great, it can overflow in the absence of external objects that normally provoke it. This section in particular reminded me a lot of psychoanalysis and just in general. There is so much froud that's present. I mean, he goes as far as to sayhe, he doesn't ever use the term ego, super ego, et cetera. But i think it's kind of like when something is so informed by another work, it'skind of like the inspiration that cannot be spoken.
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