Chapter III: 50

THE ORIGIN OF OUR INDIVIDUAL UNCONSCIOUS

Organic societal consciousness can be comprehended only
through subjective identification with it--Discussion of
the tridimensional reality of human consciousness with
its three determinants--Present phase of consciousness
admits only the bidimensional image--The position of the
bidimensional elements “right and wrong” as incorporated
in the life of the child--Advantage of the parent the real
motive underlying this moral bidimension--Long-continued
experiments with personal mood reactions as substantiation
of view that induced image of right and wrong is at the root
of human psychopathology--Non-inclusiveness of others is
meaning of unconsciousness, individual and social--Present
social adaptation is merely collective response, not societal
extension of consciousness--Substitution of the absolute of
personal interest for inclusive participation as relative
elements affords no basis for inclusion of larger whole in
which the individual is a contributing element.

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.