Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.