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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.