ABSTRACT
Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have as yet confronted but the half of their real problem. In confining their study to the individual's unconscious, they have entirely neglected the mass or social unconscious of which the individual is a part. It is futile to attempt to remedy mental disease occurring within the individual mind as long as psychiatry remains blind to the existence of mental disease within the social mind. The invariable factor that characterises mental disturbance in the particular patient is the presence of division or conflict within the personality. It is the invariable condition of our present basis of mental exchange that every criterion of judgement within the affective sphere is dependent upon the personal predilection of the individual who judges. Within this systematised consensus, every man's own judgement, however unwarranted, is rock-ribbed and unquestioned. Upon his personal basis of evaluation, his personal opinion is beyond challenge.
