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Garan, D. G.

Pages: 1 –24

The most significant confirmation of relative causation is found in our practical life and cultural tradition. Man cannot accept the causal truth of relativity consciously. But when he has to develop his motivations--by following unconsciously evolved, often superstitiously explained, cultural...

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Pleasure and relativity.

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 25 –63

Pleasure as the driving force in the universal mechanism of need-satisfaction is the source of all motivation. But modern psychology has nothing to say about it. Of course, it would not matter if other words or concepts were used. But the fact is that psychology does not know what to do with the...

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The imitation of scientism.

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 64 –98

Modern psychology clings to the only logic and methods that modern man knows as scientific, namely, those of the physical sciences. But, as we saw, such logic and methods lead to conclusions exactly opposite to the simple truths of psychological causation. On these truths psychology could be...

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The paradox of neuroses and psychoses.

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 99 –141

The key to understanding the mysterious grip that a neurotic complex has on a person is the paradox of worsening through improvement. When a person overenjoys, opposite feelings become inevitable and have to be lived through. But a neurotic person, instead of living through such feelings, tries...

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The ghost world of Freudians.

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 142 –175

The emotions and experiences of the neurotic are aftereffects of past exaggerations. They are pure phantoms having no reality of their own. They are like the curved world seen by the subject who takes off the glasses that curved everything in the opposite direction. If opposite causation is not...

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The paradox of adjustment.

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 176 –221

The main paradox of adjustment is that a person can be normally adjusted only as long as he has disturbances or needs--which he considers as maladjustment. Satisfaction or pleasure is the source of all motivation, but no satisfaction can exist where there is no need, which means disturbance. To...

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Everyday value delusions.

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 222 –258

Values determine what we feel, believe or do. But value depends upon equal and opposite disvalue. Our feeling of freedom, for instance, depends upon the amount of restrictions we live under. If there is absolute freedom, there can be no feeling of freedom. Even the highest satisfaction gives no...

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Cultural value delusions.

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 259 –311

Cultural behavior is determined by value feelings. Consequently, the value outlook with all its delusions and fallacies dominates the understanding of cultural phenomena. For instance, the humanist sees the prominence of moral or social values, and attributes them to the moral or social nature of...

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The relativity of knowledge (from philosophy to physics).

Garan, D. G.

Pages: 312 –371

Knowledge, like any human experience, is relative. We shall try to show this by looking at the most complex form of knowledge reached in philosophy, as well as man's simplest knowledge of the physical reality around him. The relativity of knowledge means that there can be no knowledge, which...

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The organism at work.

Watson, John B.

Pages: 348 –391

We assume that every normal individual can perform the acts required by a social environment and we do not care particularly whether it took him a long time to learn them or a short time. We are interested in the question as to the rapidity and accuracy with which those habits work and the...

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