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An intense, unyielding stubbornness hides beneath an apparent obedience .
The child manifests the same reactions of defiance and obedience. The child, too, can hide his stubbornness behind an excessive docility . Obedience is the giving up of the resistance; obstinacy the setting up of fresh resistances. This resistance is externally active. We have in recent years had sufficient opportunity to observe the law of resistance . Activity and defiance show great differences. Defiance is the reaction against activity of the environment. It may then manifest itself actively or passively and stands in the service of the defensive tendency of the ego. Every resistance reveals the ego in conflict with another. (en) |
