Chapter V: 78

SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS FROM A VIEWPOINT
OF RELATIVITY

The established system demands conformity to its prescribed
norm--The limitation of life to a bidimensional alternative of
one’s own pleasure or one’s own pain results in division of
personality and in compulsion neurosis involving the entire
social consciousness--Bidimensional replacements in social
system found in art, science, education, marriage, etc.--The
mood alternations of the individual are but obverse aspects of
the same bidimensional portrait of personal advantage--This
element of unconscious alternation bars unbiased observation
of the personal absolute--In the field of preventive
medicine the personal cure of the individual subordinated to
safeguarding of community health--But within the subjective
sphere there is resistance to an approach that would consider
the individual’s position as part of a societal unity because
such an approach would menace the illusion of personal
prerogative--Psychopathologists equally involved unconsciously
in the social neurosis--In an objective study of the neurosis
the psychopathologist escapes the subjective acknowledgment
of its presence within himself--Possibility of fundamental
readjustment for dissociated personality lies only in surrender
socially of bidimensional or pictorial illusion in favour of
tridimensional actuality.

PART II

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NEUROSES

Chapter I 107

ANALYSIS OF FREUD’S DYNAMIC AND INDIVIDUALISTIC CONCEPTION OF
THE NEUROSES

Freud’s theory assumes breach in integrity of consciousness due
to effort of delimited area to establish itself as a separate
self-governing unit--Distinction of Freud’s work lies in
conception of central totality of consciousness; limitation of
Freud’s work consists in assigning totality of consciousness
to single individual--Conception of totality of personality
tenable only from point of view of inclusive societal
consciousness.

Chapter II 114

FORMULATION OF AN ORGANIC OR SOCIETAL BASIS OF INTERPRETATION

The mental life of the infant organism is wholly subjective
and is one with the organism’s inherent feeling--With
entrance of the ulterior motive appearing in the command and
prohibition of the parent there is the issue of personal
gain or loss (suggestion and repression)--Appearance of
self-consciousness and self-interest forces interruption
of the organism’s societal life and a separation from its
basic continuum--Maintenance of separativeness of individual
destroys organic integrity--There is need to stand apart
from self and view it as element within the larger organism
of mankind--Instinct of tribal preservation and not
self-preservation is the dominant urge among us.

Chapter III 134

THE ORGANIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

Development of the idea of the parallel between individual and
phyletic trends in unconscious manifestations--Unconscious
worship of self-image source of suggestion and
repression--Because of this self-image what man assumes to be
cerebration is fictitious brain-state withdrawn from continuity
with organic life--Where there is individual lesion, separation
among elements is followed by pain and recourse to remedial
aids, i.e. the organism as a whole demands relief--In the
organic societal whole the individual as separated element is
source of lesion but seeks to escape through symbolic disguise
the pain of his societal separation--Conflict is between part
and whole wherein individual is embodiment of both.