Abundance means an „overflowing,“ yet it has acquired an altogether positive meaning in our language. An abundant land provides us with more than just the basic necessities. (…) But […]

Transference is not a simple repetition; but what we are dealing with is the need of a person to have another person to fulfill this need. For instance, if […]

The social character which makes people act and think as they have to act and think from the standpoint of the proper functioning of their society is only one […]

The „unconscious” is the unconscious only in relation to the „normal” state of activity. When we speak of „unconscious” we really say only that an experience is alien to […]

Disobedience in the sense in which we use it here, is an act of the affirmation of reason and will. It is not primarily an attitude directed against something, […]

Behavior traits are described in terms of actions which are observable by a third person. Thus, for instance, the behavior trait „being courageous“ would be defined as behavior which […]

Reason is the capacity to recognize the unreality of most of the ideas that man holds, and to penetrate to the reality veiled by the layers and layers of […]

Man qua man has an inherent tendency to enlarge his knowledge of reality and that means to approximate the truth. We are not dealing here with a metaphysical concept […]

When one tries, in analysis, to bring the repressed impulses back to consciousness, this force, which prevents the repressed from returning, makes itself clearly felt. Freud termed it „resistance”. […]

The will is not an abstract power of man which he possesses apart from his character. On the contrary, the will is nothing but the expression of his character. […]