Relying on new abilities, individuals develop “socially” sharing their lives in communities. It means following certain “tacit behavior rules” (common sense) and corresponding to social performance expectations/, on one hand /and pursuing their own needs and interests, on the other/. They start to build, from this time on, their Ego or Consciousness[1]
Consciousness, in this sense, is psyche’s side in charge of emotional balance. Its function is to defend psyche against “threatening situations”. Sensorial memories- regarding conflicting situations in early years-/, whose result was(were) blocked area(s) are “erased” (“forgotten”). They make themselves present/, though, in dysfunctional behaviors that confirm emotional avoidance patterns. Freud called them psychodynamics. Moreover, spontaneity easing or inhibitory atmospheres, during childhood, are introjected in children’ Identity, becoming part of their personalities. Memories linked to the source of conflicts are, also, erased. This way, Ego is in charge of managing individuals mental balance (preventing stresses linked to hard memories from being repeated). Individuals are, hence, protected and free to invest energy outside, socializing. “Structural anguish”, in turn, is neutralized. It will appear, later, in neurosis and is called, by Dias, Pathological anguish. It is the beginning of psychological accommodation phase.
In puberty, the “transition child” brings back early years cenesthetic instability. New information coming from hardware triggers sexual hormones production, establishing emotional conditions to sexual energy arousal. This process comes together with many physical and emotional changes because it brings up eroticism and demands sexual energy discharge. At this time, the available discharging channel is masturbation, once pubers do not know other forms of sexuality discharge, so far.
[1] I will be using them as synonyms
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