Chapter V 78

SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS FROM A VIEWPOINT OF RELATIVITY

The established system demands conformity to its prescribed norm--The limitation of life to a bidimensional alternative of one’s own pleasure or one’s own pain results in division of personality and in compulsion neurosis involving the entire social consciousness--Bidimensional replacements in social system found in art, science, education, marriage, etc.--The mood alternations of the individual are but obverse aspects of the same bidimensional portrait of personal advantage--This element of unconscious alternation bars unbiased observation of the personal absolute--In the field of preventive medicine the personal cure of the individual subordinated to safeguarding of community health--But within the subjective sphere there is resistance to an approach that would consider the individual’s position as part of a societal unity because such an approach would menace the illusion of personal prerogative--Psychopathologists equally involved unconsciously in the social neurosis--In an objective study of the neurosis the psychopathologist escapes the subjective acknowledgment of its presence within himself--Possibility of fundamental readjustment for dissociated personality lies only in surrender socially of bidimensional or pictorial illusion in favour of tridimensional actuality.