Chapter I: , Part I, was first published in The Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease_, and Chapter II, Part I, in _The
Psychoanalytic Review_. Acknowledgment is made to the Editors
for permission to include these papers in the present volume.

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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;
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CONTENTS

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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.

PART I

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NEUROSES