A neglected complex and its relation to Freudian psychology / by W.R. Bousfield.

  • William Robert Bousfield
Date:
1924
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    These criticisms will therefore be of no use to them, but it is hoped that they may be useful to those in whom the complex is not fully developed. It is possible that analysis by a therapist who does not suffer from the complex might bring it into consciousness, but the resistances would probably be too great to make the analysis useful, and indeed the materialistic complex, when fully developed, would prevent the patient from submitting himself to such analysis. But for those who are not yet caught in its meshes these criticisms will be useful. It should be observed that the matters which are involved in the materialistic complex are those matters of belief and opinion in which Freud and his followers, and indeed all psy¬ chologists, tell us that a complex is of special potency. Matters of opinion and belief, where no absolute proof is available, are determined by one’s mental constellation. Logic is power¬ less. The content of the unconscious mind determines the opinion. The questions involved in the doctrines of materialism are incapable of logical proof one way or another, and the scientist who goes out of his way, that is the way of pure science, to preach materialism, is dogmatising about matters of opinion and belief in which his conclusions are determined not by scientific
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