old adam, n.All

The Old Adam (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what walks into a second marriage and bungles it like the first; external solutions to inner conflicts are no solutions, and a real one comes only from within, from a changed attitude.

The Old Adam (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the unredeemed sinful man Paul tells us to put off; an author equating him with the Primordial Man contaminates two opposites, a slip that, as in a dream, marks where contrary tendencies cross.