We assert that the polarity of the first four poles is inconsistent with the polarity of the second four poles.

Nay, between the two great fields is a certain dynamic opposition, resistance, even antipathy.

So that in the natural course of life there is no possibility of confusing parent love and adult love.
But we are mental creatures, and with the explosive and mechanistic aid of ideas we can pervert the whole psyche.

Only, however, in a destructive degree, not in a positive or constructive.
Let us return then.

In the ordinary course of development, by the time that the child is born and grown to puberty the whole dynamic soul of the mother is engaged: first, with the children, and second, on the further, higher plane, with the husband, and with her own friends.