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| 4 | 237 | An View more quotes about entire">entire structure of myths is then raised to protect the individual from the insight that he was, long ago, when defenseless, mutilated and crippled. |
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| 4 | 234 | In children, of course, the punishments are commonly forgotten, at least on conscious levels. |
| 4 | 235 | Inexplicable anxieties, however, often remain. |
| 4 | 236 | These anxieties, and the rules that seem associated with them, pertaining to the suppression and inhibition of sexuality, must, of course, by thinking organisms, be rationalized. |
| 4 | 237 | An entire structure of myths is then raised to protect the individual from the insight that he was, long ago, when defenseless, mutilated and crippled. |
| 4 | 238 | You are familiar with the nature of such myths, such superstructures and defense mechanisms. |
| 4 | 239 | They are many and varied. |
| 4 | 240 | These range from the praising of an idiotic celibacy in the interests of a presumably nonexistent spirit to the genres of dirty jokes and stories, in which a vengeance is taken on the thwarted sexuality by trying to make it appear small and dirty. |