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The social basis of consciousness

Part 2 — INDEX

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Absolutism—

in affects, 39, 227

in present system of consciousness, 33, 43, 63, 104, 227

in psychoanalysis, 67, 68, 73, 101

in the Church, 66–68, 73

see also Personal absolute

Adler, 113, 174

Affects, 115, 121, 130, 178, 205, 227

Affective life, 115, 125

components, 57, 58, 62

Allocentric and autocentric—

complementary, 203, 213

definition, 188

reactions, 191–196, 218

Allosexuality—

and autosexuality, 207, 208, 211

definition, 201, 202

identical basis, 209

see also Sex

Alternative—

bidimensional, 80–85, 93, 96, 97, 226–228, 239

in art and drama, 85–87, 96

in psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychopathology, 97, 100–103, 229–233

individual expressions of, 88–91

occurrence in group analysis, 223, 224, 236

social expressions of, 85, 92–95, 99, 102, 207

see also “Good and bad”

Ambivalence, 86, 94, 196, 228

see also Alternative

“Anal complex,” 216

Analysis—

aim of, 26, 137, 164, 165, 166

see also Dream; Group analysis; Psychoanalysis

Aquinas, 158

Art, 87, 96, 183

Artist, 96, 218, 219

Autocentric—

see Allocentric

Autosexuality, 206, 215, 244

see also Allosexuality

Besant, Annie, 139

Belief, 47, 143

Bidimensional plane, 41, 42, 58, 60, 62, 104

see also Alternative; Relativity of consciousness

Bleuler, 94

Buddha, 218

Calvin, 158

Cerebro-spinal nervous system, 189–192, 194

Childhood—

consciousness of, 22, 23, 145

imposition of social images upon, 52–55, 58, 59, 92, 93, 116, 123, 132, 145, 213

Christ, 218

Christianity, 85, 193, 196

Church—

as social systematization, 65–75

Claparède, 156

Collective unconscious—

see Social unconscious

Complexes, 47, 72

Compulsion neurosis, 81

Consciousness—

absolutism of present system, 43, 44

as unconsciousness, 24, 110, 111, 114, 115, 119, 143

definition, 119

individualistic compared with societal, 51, 62, 109, 144

ontogenesis, 119–121

phylogenesis, 118, 160, 162

relativity of, 32–40, 48

unification of, 122, 126, 169, 173, 212, 218, 242

see also Dissociation; Self-consciousness; Societal concept of consciousness

Darwin, 249

Dementia præcox, 124, 136, 137, 195, 203

Depression, 91, 94

Descartes, 124

Differentiation, 129, 169, 178, 242

delusion of, 120–122, 125, 131

Dissociation—

individual and social, 45–47, 76, 109, 110, 132, 144, 148–153, 155, 176, 185, 241

Division of personality, 81, 85, 95, 147, 222

genesis of, 116–119

physiological substrate, 189–191

see also Dissociation; Neurosis; Repression

Doubt—

attitude of Church toward, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71

compared with resistance, 71–74

Drama, 85–88, 182, 183

Dream, 178–183, 185, 195

analysis, 88, 176, 177, 184

and personal absolute, 90, 111–113

and wish, 89

Eddington, A. S., 32

Education, 92, 93, 214

see also Childhood

Ego-sexuality, 201–203, 206–208

see also Sex

Einstein, 32, 36, 37, 38, 186

Eliot, George, 218

Ellis, Havelock, 158

Extravert, 187, 201

Family, 204, 234, 235

Feeling—

as subjective experience, 20, 21, 115

Freud, 1, 4, 5, 9, 14, 38, 47, 101, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 126, 154, 156, 157, 158, 159, 174, 199, 204, 236, 248, 249

Freudian analysis, 1–5, 38, 47, 138, 168, 172, 231

Freud’s theory—

of the neuroses, 12, 14, 37, 94, 108, 109, 126, 156, 157, 196, 228, 229, 236, 237

of resistance, 61, 154

“Good and bad”—

as image of personal advantage, 55, 59, 62, 81, 85, 90, 192, 200

bidimensional alternative, 53, 58, 62, 65, 78, 81, 91, 102, 103, 201, 227, 239

pretence underlying, 54–56, 58, 92

see also Image

Group analysis, 131, 223–226, 234–238, 246

Heterosexuality—

see Allosexuality; Homosexuality; Sex

Homophyllic, 208, 210

Homosexuality, 94, 97, 199, 211

and heterosexuality, 198, 200–202, 210

and paranoia, 174, 175

see also Sex

Hysteria, 63, 97, 143, 189, 191

social, 16

Ideas of reference, 136, 223

Image, 40–42

as substitution, 16

basis of marriage, 207

basis of sexuality, 14, 15

bidimensional, 53, 57–59, 226–228

contrasted with reality, 41, 79

of male and female, 96, 216

of parent, 55, 103, 173, 235

see also “Good and bad”; Mother-image; Social images

Incest-Awe, 147, 148

Individual—

as systematization, 70, 76

as separative element, 126, 150, 152, 153, 160, 243

as societal element, 115, 117, 127, 130, 148, 156

Infantilism, 215, 244

Insanity, 23, 24, 91, 124, 137

see also Neurosis; Social neurosis

Instinct, 60, 127

common societal, 200

organic instinct of sex, 202

Introvert, 187, 201

Jung, 113, 156, 204, 205

Kropotkin, P., 159

Libido, 156

Mania, 91, 94

Marriage, 93, 94, 204, 206–209

Masturbation, 211

Meyer, Adolf, xx

Mood-alternation, 91, 94

Mother-image, 141, 172, 234

Mysticism, 125, 134, 139–142

Napoleon, 218

Narcism, 157, 202

Nettleship, Richard Lewis, 106

Neurosis, 15, 76, 77, 83, 102, 117

and sexuality, 157, 173, 174, 209, 237

marital, 93, 94

source, 53, 125, 169, 173

see also Normality; Social neurosis

Neurotic personality, 13–16, 24, 44, 168, 191, 214, 243, 244

and organic consciousness, 11, 12, 23, 153, 209

Newton, 35, 36

Newtonian system, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38

Nietzsche, 23, 130, 218, 247

Normality—

and personal absolute, 47, 63

and sexuality, 173, 203, 209, 244

as criterion, 11, 27, 30

as neurotic manifestation, 12–16, 175, 176, 191

mysticism in, 125, 134, 139–141

unconsciousness of, 26, 27, 147, 179, 181, 203

Objective observation, 18

within subjective sphere, 19–21, 51, 121–124, 167, 176, 178

Organismic—

definition, 3

see also Societal concept of consciousness

Paranoia—

and homosexuality, 174, 175

Paranoiac, 94, 97, 143, 199

Personal absolute, 102, 103

and war, 83

as resistance, 61, 62, 76, 82, 84

as right, 82, 83, 90, 92, 98, 112

in psychoanalysis, 73, 101, 102

underlying social system, 45–48, 63, 70, 72–76, 80–84, 240

see also Absolutism; Resistance; Will-to-self

Personal equation, 4

Plato, 218

Precoid, 63, 97, 195

Preconscious mode, 10, 119, 137, 189, 196

Primary identification, 115, 116

principle of, 218

Psychasthenic, 94, 193, 195

Psychiatrist, 107, 124, 136, 223

Psychiatry, 123, 136, 137, 183, 187

Psychoanalysis—

alternative in, 103, 196, 198, 229–233

as social systematization, 65, 67–76, 101

as theory, 17–19, 21, 25

duration of treatment, 230–233

impasse in, 109, 172, 223, 224

misconceptions, 2, 197

personal absolute in, 3, 73, 101, 102

position of, 9, 10, 229

unconscious element in, 3, 143, 167, 234

see also Analysis; Group analysis

Psychoanalyst—

attitude toward patient, 24, 166–172, 181, 183, 195, 229, 230, 232–234

involvement in social unconscious, 110, 111, 183, 184, 222, 223

qualifications of, 28, 29

Psychology, 5, 33, 36, 38, 65, 97

Psychopathology, 63, 100, 101, 123, 124, 223

of war, 130

Ptolemaic system, 38

Relativity of consciousness, 32–40, 43, 45, 48, 51, 57–62, 104, 246

Religion, 64, 96, 98, 99

Repression—

and bipolarity, 216, 217

and sexuality, 156–159, 162, 163, 174, 193, 215, 242

and suggestion, 55, 142, 189, 192, 200, 201, 218

individual and social, 7, 13, 15, 30, 76, 77, 131, 154, 162, 163

physiological substrate, 189–193

Resistance—

as personal absolute, 61, 62, 76, 82, 84, 230

attitude of psychoanalysis toward, 69–76

compared with doubt, 71–74

individual and social, 43–45, 65, 75, 76, 152, 154, 155

Schreiner, Olive, 218

Self—

and sexuality, 15, 173, 200, 201, 210, 211

image of, 16, 58–61, 79, 82, 83, 141

preservation and race-preservation, 127

Self-consciousness, 116, 118–120, 125, 132, 147, 161, 162, 205

Sex—

and sexuality, 11, 156–159, 163, 193, 200–217, 237

as organic unity, 11, 163, 199, 208–212, 220

intermediate, 214, 215, 217

oppositeness in, 211, 213, 214, 216

Sexuality, 15

as replacement, 10, 163

see also Repression; Sex

Shields, Clarence, xix, 233

Social images, 96, 102, 135–138, 161, 229

and childhood, 51–55, 58, 59, 92, 93

as distortion of reality, 87–90

see also Image; Mother-image

Social neurosis, 101, 125, 130–133, 162, 245

and images, 229

individual implication, 84, 246

Social unconscious, 117, 133, 162, 222, 223, 228, 245

as basis of normality, 11–14, 26, 27, 44, 47, 176

see also Unconsciousness

Societal concept of consciousness, 31, 45, 46, 127–131, 148, 149, 160–163

see also Relativity of consciousness

Socrates, 218

Subjective sphere—

see Feeling; Objective observation

Sublimation, 189

Suggestion—

see Repression

Sympathetic nervous system, 189–192, 194

Transference, 167, 172, 230

Unconsciousness, 5, 15, 111, 126, 135, 144, 173, 178, 183–185, 192, 193, 204, 234

as resistance, 34, 76

underlying normality, 47, 125

see also Consciousness; Dissociation; Social unconscious

War, 14, 16, 34, 35, 83, 129–132, 249

Wilde, Oscar, 78

Will-to-self, 13, 75, 90, 98, 129, 156

Wish, 89, 111–113, 173, 180, 195, 232

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