Chapter V: 165

ORGANIC ANALYSIS OF REPRESSION AND OF THE FACTOR OF RESISTANCE
FROM THE INDIVIDUAL VIEWPOINT

Transference is an unconscious condition which involves as
much the analyst as the analysand--Resistance and repression
are the factors in this mutual situation--Under present
personalistic procedure in psychoanalysis the analyst deals
objectively with an inherently subjective situation--He
regards only the disparity of the patient and so preserves the
apparent differentiation which is the underlying cause of the
patient’s disorder--There is a confusion in psychoanalysis due
to the failure to discriminate between the mother-image and
the mother-organism--The analyst, being socially dissociated,
seeks to reinstate the comfort of his own childhood through an
unconscious self-interested response (pleasure or displeasure)
to the analysand--The transference which is thus introduced
by the unconscious attitude of the analyst cannot be analyzed
because of the analyst’s own involvement--This is the impasse
of the individualistic analysis--From a societal viewpoint the
analyst can be interested only in the patient’s delusion of
separateness and will direct his endeavour to an understanding
of the social repression which dissociates them both from the
common, generic consciousness.

Chapter VI 177

THE DREAM AND ITS ANALYSIS IN AN ORGANISMIC INTERPRETATION OF
THE NEUROSES

To analyze the dream from a basis that is equally separative
and repressed is to exchange the symbols of the individual’s
repression for analogous symbols of the social repression--The
night’s reaction, being individual, and the day’s reaction,
being social, both represent an endeavour to adjust vicariously
man’s societal disunity--The affective or subjective life
cannot be adjusted through the study of the objective
mechanisms that merely reflect it but only through the
subjective (conscious) reabsorption within us of the affects to
whose suggestion the dream is the mirrored reaction--The drama
and the dream are identical in mechanism--An organic mode of
consciousness can regard with equally objective clarity the
vicarious processes of the day and of the night.

Chapter VII 187

THE BIOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE OF THE NEUROTIC CONFLICT IN ITS
ORGANIC SIGNIFICANCE

Two types of reaction: the _autocentric_ who withdraws
_in toto_ and has completely negative attitude toward
his congeners, and the _allocentric_ who makes effort at
social compromise or adaptation (“sublimation”)--Both reactions
equally self-centered: autocentric (precoid, psychasthenic)
showing adaptation through individual dream; allocentric
(hysteric, hypomanic) through social dream--Biological
substrate of these reactions lies in lack of balance between
cerebro-spinal and sympathetic systems--In the preconscious
form preserved among animals no break between the two systems;
there is maintained rhythmic and harmonious co-ordination of
response--Period of Greek thought essentially allocentric;
Christianity essentially autocentric.