Human Potentialities1958 |
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Page 119
... mind from making contact with certain spe- cific materials . Inhibition or blockage , as in the case of reading disabilities , may appear when there is a profound emotional in- capacity to give the mind to the material at all ...
... mind from making contact with certain spe- cific materials . Inhibition or blockage , as in the case of reading disabilities , may appear when there is a profound emotional in- capacity to give the mind to the material at all ...
Page 125
... mind to saturate itself with that which satisfies it . This is no plea against the recognition of constitutional in- adequacies , and no plea against the biological improvement of the human stock . We must begin with whatever the stock ...
... mind to saturate itself with that which satisfies it . This is no plea against the recognition of constitutional in- adequacies , and no plea against the biological improvement of the human stock . We must begin with whatever the stock ...
Page 126
... mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage - to remain curious , open , unsatiated in all its relations ... mind ; creative powers which spring into being when once the narrow , nervous , preoccupied world of waking activity ...
... mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage - to remain curious , open , unsatiated in all its relations ... mind ; creative powers which spring into being when once the narrow , nervous , preoccupied world of waking activity ...
Contents
Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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