ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1921, Psyche's Lamp reminds the reader that all thought and discussion, to whatever aspect of confronting problems, social, political, ethical, vital and personal, they may be directed, posit psychological premises. In the darkness and confusion of a human world under reconstrction, where immemorial landmarks lie strewn and buried under the debris of collapsed super-structures, we shall vainly endeavour to thread our way to any purpose unless we can pierce the obscurity by the light of Psyche's lamp.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter I|14 pages

Action and Purpose

chapter Chapter II|19 pages

Organic and Inorganic Action

chapter Chapter III|26 pages

Feeling and Cognition

chapter Chapter IV|26 pages

Development of Cognition

chapter Chapter V|17 pages

Æsthetic and Noetic Action

chapter Chapter VI|30 pages

The Organism and Focal Consciousness

chapter Chapter VII|30 pages

Control and Freedom

chapter Chapter VIII|18 pages

The Primary Conative Tendency

chapter Chapter IX|14 pages

Consciousness as a Social Product

chapter Chapter X|20 pages

The Illusion of Individuality