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Such acquisitions will strengthen his attitude, and this is the very reason why collective ideas have always been so important. 65 if Freud had got stuck in his own pessimism, he does to his thoroughly negative and personal conception of the unconscious. You get nowhere if you assume that the vital basis of man is nothing but a very personal and therefore very private affaire scandaleuse. This is utterly hope- It looks as clinging as and true only to the extent that a Strindberg drama is true. But pierce the veil of that sickly illusion, and you step out of your narrow, stuffy personal corner into the wide realm of the collective psyche, into the healthy and natural matrix of the human mind, into the very soul of humanity.

It is not to be denied that advice may occasionally do some good, but advice is about as characteristic of modern psychotherapy as bandaging of modern surgery that is to say, personal and authoritarian influence is an important factor in healing, but not by any means the only one, and in no sense does it constitute the essence of psychotherapy. Whereas formerly it seemed to be everybody's province, today psychotherapy has become a science and uses the scientific method. With our deepened understanding of the nature of neuroses and the psychic comwater, 29 ills, the nature of the treatment, too, has considerable change and differentiation.

A paradox, I admit, but it cannot be helped. It is no more paradoxical than man him- conscious mind. tor, even as a and that cannot be helped either. There are sound philosophical reasons why our arguments should end in paradox and why a paradoxical statement is the self 63 better witness to truth than a one-sided, so-called "positive" 34 SOME ASPECTS OF MODERN PSYCHOTHERAPY statement. But this is not the place to embark on a lengthy logical discourse. if you will bear in 64 mind what we have just said about Now the significance of the unconscious, and if you will recall our discussion of the regressive tendency, you will discover a further and cogent reason why the patient should have such a tendency, and why he is quite justified in having it.

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