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Preface xv

Introduction 1

Significance of Freud’s basic conception--Misconceptions in psychoanalysis due to present personalistic basis--Psychoanalysis entails the element of personal differentiation and sponsorship presented in other therapeutic systems--Need for abrogation of personal equation--Societal concept an outgrowth of essential objective findings of Freud--This thesis an initial presentation of an organismic interpretation of human consciousness.