"Man - the Finest of Machines": Transforming Human Nature Through Mental Hygiene in the United States and Soviet Russia, 1900-1930s.

Abstract

The pressure of civilization brings in its train no pathological results, it is true, but is shown in malformations of character, and in the perpetual readiness of the inhibited instincts to break through to satisfaction at any suitable opportunity. Sigmund Freud, "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death", 1915, p. 287