In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
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Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. “Freedom” is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion.
Dreaming, in short, is one of the devices we employ to circumvent repression, one of the main methods of what may be called indirect representation in the mind.
dreaming / mind / Representation / repression
Another assumption is labelled “regression”, and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.
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But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.
The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either. Both mind and matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor.
experience / matter / mind / primitive / World
Whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it; therefore nothing can be thought of except ideas in minds; therefore anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist.
exist / idea / inconceivable / mind / Thought
A mind perpetually open, will be a mind perpetually vacant.