On Psychiatry

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And since in reality, between these two stools, between the physical-material and the abstract-psychological, one is actually constantly in danger of sitting down on the ground, it is necessary to invent a completely unconscious world, a strange and unconscious world. And that has now been amply done in psychoanalysis, in analytical psychology, a scientific object that is actually extraordinarily interesting. This scientific object, once it has led to a reform of psychiatry, so that we will once again have a proper psychiatry, will have to be properly examined, above all, from this new psychiatric point of view, because it is actually an object for psychiatry.

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