The Direction of Desire Suggestions for the Application of Psychology to Everyd
The Direction of Desire Suggestions for the Application of Psychology to Everyd
Stanley M Bligh
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Very few people, however strong their own convictions may be, will dare to act against a group repugnance. They have played a very large part in the sub- jection of women, who have been, and still are under some conditions, led by them into courses which can be proved to have a prejudicial effect on the health, as wearing tight corsets, or which needlessly increase the dangers to life and limb, as the use of a side-saddle in the hunting-field. Even when it is clearly recognized as an intellectu...al proposition that personal advantage points one way, this feeling of aversion due to fashion sugges- tion causes many, even of those who have plenty of moral courage, to act in a contrary sense. Instances of feelings of repugnance due to deliberate self-training are mostly to be found in the semi-aesthetic sides of life — that is, in what is known as the cultivation of taste. A person will, for example, set himself to find out what he 158 THE DIRECTION OF DESIRE believes to be good in pictorial art, in literary style, or in political thought.
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