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THE ORIGIN OF OUR INDIVIDUAL UNCONSCIOUS

Organic societal consciousness can be comprehended only through subjective identification with it--Discussion of the tridimensional reality of human consciousness with its three determinants--Present phase of consciousness admits only the bidimensional image--The position of the bidimensional elements “right and wrong” as incorporated in the life of the child--Advantage of the parent the real motive underlying this moral bidimension--Long-continued experiments with personal mood reactions as substantiation of view that induced image of right and wrong is at the root of human psychopathology--Non-inclusiveness of others is meaning of unconsciousness, individual and social--Present social adaptation is merely collective response, not societal extension of consciousness--Substitution of the absolute of personal interest for inclusive participation as relative elements affords no basis for inclusion of larger whole in which the individual is a contributing element.