On Psychiatry

GA 314/1920-03-26/p017 ·1920-03-26 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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However, what I mean here will have to be put on a fairly broad basis. After all, it is also the case for the rest of the disease that there is a big difference between a weak individual being affected by some complex or a strong, robust individual. Let us assume that two people live next to each other from a certain age onwards and interact. However, one of them still has a robust, rural nature from his youth and background, while the other descends from three generations of city dwellers. The one who has the healthy farmer's nature and can tolerate some internal damage may, under certain circumstances, have a much more severe complex within himself, but he can tolerate it and does not become ill. The other one, who actually only has it through a psychic infection, through an imitation, through whatever is present from person to person, cannot tolerate the effect.

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