Chapter Ii 114

FORMULATION OF AN ORGANIC OR SOCIETAL BASIS OF INTERPRETATION

The mental life of the infant organism is wholly subjective and is one with the organism’s inherent feeling--With entrance of the ulterior motive appearing in the command and prohibition of the parent there is the issue of personal gain or loss (suggestion and repression)--Appearance of self-consciousness and self-interest forces interruption of the organism’s societal life and a separation from its basic continuum--Maintenance of separativeness of individual destroys organic integrity--There is need to stand apart from self and view it as element within the larger organism of mankind--Instinct of tribal preservation and not self-preservation is the dominant urge among us.