Chapter I: 9

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THEORY AND IN LIFE

Theory of psychoanalysis rests upon conception that nervous
disorders are substitutive manifestation of repressed sexual
life--Sexuality itself, however, as now existing, symptomatic
of repression and quite preclusive of the organic instinct of
sex--Popular analytic view places a premium upon the reaction
embodied in normality but substitution and repression in
this collective reaction identical with the unconscious of
neurotic individuals--Substitution of self-image for reality,
present in reactions of normal, is not as yet recognized by
psychoanalysis--Psychoanalysis remains in so far a theory
only--In truth, the neurotic personality is index of the urge
toward an essential organic mode of consciousness--Continuity
with organic processes registered as subjective feeling cannot
be approached by objective methods--The insanity of the
individual not to be cured as long as there is the insanity of
the social mind about him.