The sadistic mastery is characterized by the fact that it wants to make the object a will-less instrument in the sadist’s hands, while the nonsadistic joy in influencing others […]

The mode of being has as its prerequisites independence, freedom, and the presence of critical reason. Its fundamental characteristic is that of being active, not in the sense of […]

The process (of individuation) has two aspects: one is that the child grows stronger physically, emotionally, and mentally. In each of these spheres intensity and activity grow. At the […]

Self-analysis is the constant active awareness of oneself throughout one’s life, to be aware, to increase the awareness of oneself, of one’s unconscious motivations, of everything which is significant […]

To know oneself is not only to be aware of what we do but to become aware what is unconscious to us, of what we don’t know. (…) Since […]

Not only others, but we ourselves are the „object“ of our feelings and attitudes; the attitudes toward others and toward ourselves, far from being contradictory, are basically conjunctive. With […]

I should like to describe sentimentality is feeling under the condition of complete detachment. Unless you are really insane, you have feeling, but if you are detached, remote, unrelated […]

The aim of all these various forms (…) of „communitarian Socialism“ was an industrial organization in which every working person would be an active and responsible participant, where work […]

Every society has its own distinctive libidinal structure, even as it has its own economic, social, political, and cultural structure. This libidinal structure is the product of the influence […]

A personality―or an organization―is a system. That is to say it’s not just a sum total of many parts but it is a structure. If one part of the […]