Analyze all of your exaggerated reactions and disturbances.

The best time to do this is as soon as possible after the occurrence; in practice, however, a mental in­ventory taken at the close of the day, accompanied by self-analysis, will be found more convenient.

When some extreme reaction or disturbance has been experienced, make a full record of it. Write it out in detail and enter it in the record book. You can consider this record as the scenario of an unconscious psychical drama. When convenient, analyze the emo­tional contents of this psychical drama, which will be a somewhat different procedure from that of analyz­ing a dream.

In the present case we do not wish to analyze the scenes which have surrounded the exaggerated re­actions and emotional disturbances, but the aspects of the emotions that have been brought into such violent activity.

After you have written out your psychical scenario, disintegrate the various emotional characteristics which have figured therein. Make an inventory of the nature of the mental attitudes and emotional sensations which were experienced in the "drama" in ques­tion.

At first glance the emotional element that is most dominantly prominent will look like anger; though as a matter of fact that anger is not an element at all, but something that has been made up of other emotional factors. So, when you disintegrate the various emo­tional elements from the "mix-up," you will probably find that they are merely infantile expressions hinging on infantile attitudes.

The child starts off on its journey towards an ele­vated status of cultural responsibility from a base point of very primitive characteristics. He is selfish, petulant, impatient, willful, and in various other ways he betrays his animal lineage. When, therefore, you manage to disintegrate the elements of your emotional storm which you thought was anger, you will find that they consist of unsublimated infantile character­istics.

The infantile influence is always to be found nes­tling behind such outbreaks.

The very act of exposing these anchorages to primi­tive characteristics, and of identifying the real factors involved in such exaggerated reactions and disturb­ances, constitutes a great stride towards remedying them.

In analyzing all such outbreaks: hunt for the infant

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