Chapter IV 63

THE UNCONSCIOUS FACTOR WITHIN THE SOCIAL SYSTEM

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 medicine and religion--Organic analysis of the element of social authority--The systems of psychoanalysis and the Roman Church as paradigms--Factor of resistance in psychoanalysis analogous to factor of doubt in religion--The systematization comprising the social corporation of individuals as much an aspect of the unconscious autocracy of the personal absolute as the systematization of the individual--In the conflict between these two mutually opposed absolutes (socially systematized authority and the resistance of the individual) there is an organic impasse.