{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 168/1916-12-03/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"People search, but they search blindly. They sense that something is hidden at the bottom of their souls, but they cannot bring themselves to take the steps into the spiritual world to find what is hidden there. What do psychoanalysts say today? They say: When a person comes to us in life, their overall state of being depends not only on what is in their consciousness, but on a whole series of factors that lie in the unconscious, below the threshold of consciousness. A person comes along and feels, in a sense, depressed. An irregularity occurs in their entire nervous system. The psychoanalyst believes that one must then look for what the person may have experienced many years ago, what they have not fully processed as an experience, but have suppressed into the subconscious. But just because it has been forgotten does not mean it is not there. The psychoanalyst suspects that what has been removed from consciousness has not been removed from reality; it is just down there in the subconscious. He then assumes that if you lure it up into consciousness through a kind of catechism, you will discover what is eating and consuming you down there. Starting from this point—I cannot, of course, discuss psychoanalysis in all its ramifications here, but I will show some aspects of it—the psychoanalyst now searches for many things in the depths of the soul. Years ago, the person had these or those ideals in life, these or those hopes, these or those plans. He did not carry them out, could not carry them out. Certainly, they are out of his consciousness, for the reason that he lives in his present life; but they are not out of the reality of his soul. There they feed, there they eat, and his entire well-being depends on what is down there in his consciousness. He has had some kind of unhappy love affair—and this is what psychoanalysts find most often, because they look for it. This is an isolated province of his soul consciousness; he has fought against it, it is no longer in his consciousness, but it continues to have an effect. According to psychoanalysts, it continues to have an effect especially when only the feelings of love were there and the beloved was not, when he remained unsatisfied. Then, deep down in the soul life, the psychoanalyst searches, apart from the destroyed hopes of youth, apart from what I have just indicated, for the “animalistic sludge” of life, that which continually works up as the “animalistic sludge” of life, the connection with everything that man has as an animalistic, as an animal being, and which plays into his soul life. And such analytical psychologists who go further say: If one penetrates further and further down, one finally finds what arises in the soul from racial connections, from national connections, and so on, what plays into the soul in a more or less unconscious way, but finally, at the very bottom, the demonic, the most indeterminate thing that lies beneath the “animalistic sludge.” Such people, who today are particularly fond of psychoanalysis, often quietly suggest that in these demonic depths below there are impulses that lead to gnosis, theosophy, anthroposophy, and the like. Even if this is sometimes hinted at in a somewhat hidden way, it is still hinted at. Read one of the latest issues of “Wissen und Leben” (Knowledge and Life), and you will sometimes find such hints, albeit hidden between the lines.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-12-03","location":null,"word_count":582,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/168/1916-12-03/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Connection Between the Living and the Dead","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA168/English/SOL2024/19161203p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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