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- Herausgeber: Edizioni Cerchio della Luna
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
Classic words from one of the founding mothers of the modern occult movement. Long considered one of the classics of modern occultism.
The author, Dion Fortune, goes into great detail about an aera of occultism that had been formally regulated to Theosophy, and brings it in line with the western tradition. It seems that sometimes, where the physician is lost with no solutions, the meta-physician might just have the answer.
A wonderful little book able to show an ancient and deep psychology and to give a view of the thought patterns that shaped the magic we practice today. A true gem of this genre.
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Dion Fortune
Indice dei contenuti
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I THE PHYSICAL VEHICLE OF CONSCIOUNESS
CHAPTER II THE EVOLUTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
CHAPTER III HOW AN IDEA ENTERS THE MIND
CHAPTER IV THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE MIND
CHAPTER V THE ORGANIZATION OF THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE MIND
CHAPTER VI COMPLEXES
CHAPTER VII THE INSTINCTS
CHAPTER VIII THE SELF-PRESERVATION INSTINCT
CHAPTER IX DISEASES OF THE SELF-PRESERVATION INSTINCT
CHAPTER X THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCT
CHAPTER XI DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCT
CHAPTER XII DISEASES OF THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCT
CHAPTER XIII SUBLIMATION
CHAPTER XIV MALADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
CHAPTER XV CONFLICT
CHAPTER XVI REPRESSION
CHAPTER XVII DISSOCIATION
CHAPTER XVIII SYMBOLISATION
CHAPTER XIX PHANTASIES, DREAMS, AND DELUSIONS
CHAPTER XX PSYCHOTHERAPY
CHAPTER XXI PSYCHOANALYSIS
CHAPTER XXII HYPNOSIS, SUGGESTION, AND AUTOSUGGESTION
CHAPTER XXIII THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PSYCHOLOGY
CHAPTER XXIV CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
ORIGINALLY given as a popular lecture course, this little book does not pretend to be a contribution to the formidable array of psychological literature. It is intended for those who have neither the time nor the training necessary to assimilate the standard works on the subject, but who want to know its elements and to understand the principles on which our characters are formed and the means by which the process of thought is carried on, not so much from the scholastic point of view, but in relation to the problems of everyday life.
It is hoped that many will find herein the key to things that have puzzled them in their own natures, for only those who hold such unsolved problems in their hearts can know how crippling and tormenting they are.
This book does not aim so much at an orderly setting forth of the elements of psychology as at planting certain fundamental concepts in untrained minds so that they may serve as a basis for future studies. To this end the writer has adopted a pictorial, almost diagrammatic method of presentation in order that a framework of general ideas may be formed into which details may subsequently be fitted, having found this to be the best way to convey novel concepts to minds untrained in web physical subtleties.
The teachings of no special school of psychology are adhered to; the writer is indebted to all, though loyal to none; holding that in the absence of any accepted standard of authority in psychological science each student must review the doctrines offered for his adherence in the light of his own experience.
This book is essentially practical in aim, written in response to a practical need. In her experience of remedial psychology, the writer saw that many cases of mental and nervous trouble would never have developed if their victims had had an elementary knowledge of the workings of the mind. She also found that many patients required nothing but an explanation of these principles to put them on the road to recovery, and that even when more than this was needed to effect a cure, such a knowledge greatly expedited the treatment by enabling the patient to co-operate intelligently.
So far as she is aware, there is no book that deals with psychopathology, not from the point of view of the student, but from that of the patient who needs an elementary knowledge of the laws of the mind in order to enable him to think hygienically. This book is written to fulfil that need. It is not only applicable, however, to those who are sick in mind or state, but to those also who desire to develop their latent capacities by means of the practical application of the laws of thought and character.CHAPTER I THE PHYSICAL VEHICLE OF CONSCIOUNESS
In order to arrive at an adequate understanding of mental processes it is necessary to have some idea of the machinery whereby the mind makes contact with the body.
Throughout every inch of our organism is a network of specialised fibres whose function it is to carry nervous impulses from the sense organs to the central nervous system of brain and spinal cord, and from thence out again to the muscles, glands, and other organs of reaction. The sense organs act as receivers of sensation, the nerve fibres as transmitters, the central nervous system as a general telephone exchange, and the muscles, glands and organs as the executers of the impulses of the mind.
Sense organs consist of cells, or sets of cells, specialised for the reception of particular kinds of impressions. That is to say, if the particular kind of stimulus they are fitted to receive is administered to them, a change, probably of a chemical type, takes place in their substance, which, it is thought, gives rise to energy of an electrical nature, which runs along the nerve fibre as along a wire. At the present moment, however, our knowledge of the nature of the nervous impulse is tentative and hypothetical.
