The social basis of consciousness

_I am that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal and whole; God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul._ “Hertha.”--Swin...

Theory of psychoanalysis rests upon conception that nervous disorders are substitutive manifestation of repressed sexual life--Sexuality itself, however, as now existing, sympto...

The Newtonian system assumes an unqualified absolute and fails to take account of factors operating within the larger system in which it is itself an element--In the sphere of p...

Organic societal consciousness can be comprehended only through subjective identification with it--Discussion of the tridimensional reality of human consciousness with its three...

Daily reactions betray state of anxiety in the social mind--These anxieties, sponsored in earlier times by medical and religious fetish, still substantiated by the systems of me...

The established system demands conformity to its prescribed norm--The limitation of life to a bidimensional alternative of one’s own pleasure or one’s own pain results in divisi...

Freud’s theory assumes breach in integrity of consciousness due to effort of delimited area to establish itself as a separate self-governing unit--Distinction of Freud’s work li...

The mental life of the infant organism is wholly subjective and is one with the organism’s inherent feeling--With entrance of the ulterior motive appearing in the command and pr...

Development of the idea of the parallel between individual and phyletic trends in unconscious manifestations--Unconscious worship of self-image source of suggestion and repressi...

The resolution of repression or resistance is regarded by Freud as the essential problem of psychoanalysis--Neurosis, according to Freud, is life’s repression of sexuality--Acco...

Transference is an unconscious condition which involves as much the analyst as the analysand--Resistance and repression are the factors in this mutual situation--Under present p...

To analyze the dream from a basis that is equally separative and repressed is to exchange the symbols of the individual’s repression for analogous symbols of the social repressi...

Two types of reaction: the _autocentric_ who withdraws _in toto_ and has completely negative attitude toward his congeners, and the _allocentric_ who makes effort at social comp...

Psychoanalysis, unconsciously influenced by a division based on the bias of its own arbitrary alternatives, has assumed contrasts of behaviour not warrantable from an organismic...

Back of the pretence of the social mind lies a basis of social fear and mistrust--The mutual accommodations of external agreement used to cloak the introversion of the individua...

Demand for wider concept of organized consciousness of man in order to replace disintegrating structures of present social system--Need to dispel illusion of mental oppositeness...

Now that the excitement following the inundation of psychoanalysis has died down and the clinical territories most affected have been once more built up and restocked, it is int...

In presenting a psychological discussion that presupposes the altered basis of the relativists, I am under no illusion as to the wide disparity between the mathematical concepti...

In the preceding chapter I attempted to indicate the analogy between the principle of relativity as set forth by the physicists and what I described as the principle of relativi...

Whatever is true of the individual singly, is true of the individual collectively. Whatever is observable as neurotic process within the isolated personality of the hysteric or...

Oscar Wilde says in one of his plays: “There are in the world two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.” The epigram is peculiarly apt in tel...

Personally, I am more and more convinced that the cure for sentiment, as for all the weakened forms of strong things, is not to refuse to feel it, but to get to feel _more_ in i...

The following pages are an endeavour to determine the conditions, social and individual, that constitute the health of the mental organism. What the health of the mental organis...

Within the various fields of scientific investigation, there is the established precept that we set out from the simplest assignable elements as a basis for all future inquiry....

In submitting a thesis which takes the position that the significance of the neurosis is its societal implication, and which lays the burden of its adjustment upon the societal...

The psychic phenomenon with which Freud was confronted in the very inception of his work was the element of repression and its concomitant reflection in the objective reaction o...

As the causative element in the neuroses is societal or subjective, an analysis that proceeds upon the objective tack of uncovering a patient’s complexes is futile. If I am obje...

The dream of the individual together with the individualistic analysis of the dream presents a most difficult and as yet untried field. There is here required a technique that i...

In studying the neurotic diathesis one recognizes the existence of two marked reaction-types more or less clearly delineated one from another in mood and _tempo_, though they eq...

In the impatience of the industrial laboratory to meet the public need, it happens not infrequently that, through an omission of adequate qualitative tests due to the unusual ha...

The first demand of our organic completion through a unification with another is a unification within oneself. From a basis of a divided self one can look out only dividedly. Fr...

I well recognize that in its matter this essay offers little that is new. What I have sought to do is rather to speak of our human reactions in the large from the basis of the a...