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ULTIMATE RESOLUTION OF THE SOCIETAL NEUROSIS IN ITS PERSONAL
IMPLICATION

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
and the restraints of an alternative system of morality
which aims merely to establish temporary balance between
its opposites--Experimental basis for group conception here
formulated in practical experience of a few students--As the
societal and the individual are organically one in mode, the
unification of the individual is a step toward the unification
of the societal consciousness--Organismic (societal) group
differentiated from collective (social) cluster--The period
of man’s substitutive image-production first interrupted by
Darwin’s theory of evolution and further threatened by Freud’s
theory of the evolutionary processes of the unconscious--The
social basis of consciousness, however inadequately formulated,
invites an analytic approach to social or mass reactions,
exemplified in our national, political, industrial and
religious life.

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