ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two themes: choice and consciousness. The awareness of oneself and the awareness of the other may lead to a further widening of consciousness. Anxiety impels to create a greater consciousness. In a patient coming to psychotherapy, absence of anxiety is a poor prognostic sign. However, once anxiety has stimulated a new awareness, it becomes itself transformed into fear. And in fear, the object of the emotion is known, and then it becomes possible to take action, to help oneself, to achieve a creative resolution. The chapter discusses how the new problems and concerns of man may have affected the development of the science of psychology, and what resolution to the new conflicts can be envisaged. It suggests that the contact and the mingling of peoples with different religious and philosophical beliefs have shaken the faith that any one religion is the sole guardian and the sole possessor of the ultimate truth of the universe.
