Chapter IX: 221

ULTIMATE RESOLUTION OF THE SOCIETAL NEUROSIS IN ITS SOCIAL
IMPLICATION

Back of the pretence of the social mind lies a basis of social
fear and mistrust--The mutual accommodations of external
agreement used to cloak the introversion of the individual--The
development of group analysis permits study of the resistance
of the social consensus with respect to the individual as well
as the resistance of the individual with respect to the social
consensus--Group analysis, like individual analysis, presents
an unconscious and bidimensional situation involving reaction
clusters which constitute a pooling of the unconscious of
the several members--This group situation offers opportunity
to secure relative and societal background against which the
individual may view in impersonal perspective his habitual
arbitrary and personal evaluations--According to the group
or relative conception the causative element of the neurosis
is societal or phyletic and correction must proceed upon a
societal or phyletic basis.