The Five Organs of Sensation and Action

field of Psychiatry, of pent-up emotional blocks and mental fixations, which have their roots in an unbalanced polarity in this water element. Capable persons express themselves rationally. But, where the emotional pressure is great and difficult to express, such frustrated ones let off steam by outbursts of words with little vitality in them and a lack of ideas. It is an outlet for pent-up energy that has not found its experience through matter, and so finds an escape mechanism; otherwise, there is a locked-up repression which registers as real pains of neurasthenia anywhere in the body. The generative act is the motor expression of this water principle of emotional chemistry.