Now this disconnection of one with all others is of two sorts, one of which is his ordinary disassociation with all persons and things, and the other is his absolute unconnection with every thing including himself.
Watching the play of human disease around us we can soon see that there are two distinct ways by which disassociation of these selves begins; first, through the mind by negative thinking, and second through the emotions by negative feeling.
Outside the asylum doors there will be an ever increasing crowd of intelligent men and women psychologists, who will be awake to the first hint of psychic disassociation in an individual.
What excellent opportunities the present offers for one who would study the mechanism of the association and disassociation of ideas!
The same inertia is opposed to the work of disassociationseen operating slowly on certain truths.
Fortunate for the individual whom it sets free, this particulardisassociation is, in fact, far less fortunate for a people.
The state of disassociation reached by moral commonplaces seems to bear a rather close relation to the degree of intellectual civilization.
There are, then, a very large number of ideas that are never employed by men in their pure state, either because they have not yet been disassociated, or because this disassociation has been incapable of achieving stability.
The work of disassociation tends, precisely, to free the truth from all its fragile part, in order to obtain the pure, one, and consequently unassailable idea.
An historical psychology of humanity could be attempted by determining the precise degree of disassociation attained, in the course of the centuries, by a certain number of those truths which the orthodox agree to call primordial.
Its disassociation is, therefore, very little advanced as regards the nation as a whole.
