ABSTRACT
The author aware that most people believe they know all there is to be known about psychology, because they think that psychology is nothing but what they know of themselves. His first lecture will be a sort of introduction to the problem of practical psychology and religion. The second is concerned with facts which demonstrate the existence of an authentic religious function in the unconscious. The third deals with the religious symbolism of unconscious processes. A neurosis is a humiliating defeat and is felt as such by people who are not entirely unconscious of their own psychology. The patient had never read any psychology, much less any analytical psychology. Whenever a stimulus-word touches something connected with the hidden complex, the reaction of the conscious ego will be disturbed, or even replaced, by an answer coming from the complex. It is just as if the complex were an autonomous being capable of interfering with the intentions of the ego.
