Such a child or man is rebellious whenever rebellion is possible; he seems to kick constitutionally against the pricks.
The fact of "contrariness" in older children--especially boys--is so familiar to all who have observed school children with any care that I need not cite further details.

And men and women often become so enslaved to suggestions of the contrary that they seem only to wait for indications of the wishes of others in order to oppose and thwart them.
Contrary suggestions are to be explained as exaggerated instances of control.

It is easy to see that the checks and counter-checks already spoken of as constituting the method of control of muscular movement may themselves become so habitual and intense as to dominate the reactions which they should only regulate.

The associations between the muscular series and the visual series, let us say, which controls it, comes to work backward, so that the drift of the organic processes is toward certain contrary reverse movements.
In the higher reaches of conduct and life we find interesting cases of very refined contrary suggestion.

In the man of ascetic temperament, the duty of self-denial takes the form of a regular contrary suggestion in opposition to every invitation to self-indulgence, however innocent.