{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-18/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You will recall the studies in which we have tried to establish a relationship to the different premises and assertions of modern psychoanalysis. What mattered to me in those studies was to bring clarity into the concept of the “unconscious,” to show that the way in which the concept of the “unconscious” is commonly used in psychoanalysis is essentially unfounded. As long as one is unable to go beyond this concept, a purely negative concept, one cannot say more than that psychoanalysis works with insufficient methods of cognition on an especially challenging phenomenon today. Because the psychoanalysts strive to explore the soul and spirit and, as we have observed, even pursue this soul and spirit into a social life, one must admit that we have here a point of departure that is much more significant than what official academic science is able to offer in this realm. Because analytical psychology tries to intervene in life, however, through pedagogy, therapy, and soon, most likely, social and political means, the dangers related to this matter must be regarded with great concern. The question thus arises what it is essentially that the researchers of today cannot and do not wish to reach. They recognize that there exists a soul nature beyond consciousness; they search for a soul beyond consciousness, but they cannot raise themselves to cognition of the spirit itself. Spirit can in no way be grasped through a concept of the unconscious, because an unconscious spirit is like a human being without a head. I have brought to your attention that there are people who under certain hysterical conditions walk about the streets and see in other human beings only their bodies, not their heads. It is a definite form of illness if one is unable to see a person's head. Among contemporary researchers, there are some who believe they are seeing the whole spirit. Since they represent the spirit as unconscious, however, they show immediately that they themselves have fallen prey to illusion, the illusion that there is an unconscious spirit, a spirit without consciousness, if we were to cross the threshold of consciousness, whether in the right way, as we have always described it in our spiritual scientific research, or in an ill, abnormal way, as in the cases that are usually submitted to psychoanalysts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. 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Und weil die Psychoanalytiker auf der einen Seite sich bestreben, das Geistig-Seelische zu erforschen und, wie wir gesehen haben, dieses Geistig-Seelische auch im sozialen Leben verfolgen, so muß man sagen, daß hier ein Ansatz ist, der immerhin mehr bedeutet als dasjenige, was die offizielle Universitätswissenschaft gerade auf diesem Gebiete liefern kann. Aber auf der andern Seite, weil die analytische Psychologie versucht, durch das Pädagogische, durch das Therapeutische und wahrscheinlich demnächst auch durch das Sozialpolitische in das Leben einzugreifen, sind die Gefahren, die mit einer solchen Sache doch verbunden sind, immerhin als sehr ernstliche anzusehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-18/p003"},{"locus":"GA 178/1917-11-18/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Nun entsteht die Frage: Was ist es denn eigentlich, woran die Forscher der Gegenwart so ganz und gar nicht herankommen können und nicht kommen wollen? Sie erkennen an, daß ein Seelisches außerhalb des Bewußtseins vorhanden ist; sie suchen ein Seelisches außerhalb des Bewußtseins; aber sie können sich nicht aufschwingen zu der Erkenntnis des Geistes selbst. Geist kann niemals durch den Begriff des Unbewußten irgendwie erfaßt werden; denn ein unbewußter Geist ist wie ein Mensch ohne Kopf. Nun habe ich Sie ja darauf aufmerksam gemacht, daß aus gewissen hysterischen Zuständen heraus es sogar Menschen gibt, die auf der Straße herumgehen und bei andern Menschen nur die Körper, nicht die Köpfe schen. Das ist eine bestimmte Krankheitsform, wenn man von niemandem den Kopf sieht. 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