DISCUSSION.

There is a widespread tendency to accept neurosis as a somehow interesting and thrilling experience, and more than that, as a behavior pattern which makes one conspicuous and is likely to gain the applause of the community. Neurosis has become almost a cultural system in itself, and people "fall for" it as others "fall for" art, religion and politics. Our life as adults is to be lived, to a large extent, in institutional interrelations, and these are largely rational and objectively meaningful. This is a specific type of relationship, the transition and the adjustment to which is not simply taken care of by the processes of transferring and projecting into society the behavior patterns which we acquired in the personalistic families, but which requires specific effort. There is widespread inability and unwillingness to discriminate between various forms of social relationship. The lack or weakness of structural elements in our social organization, the tremendous number of people we meet, the hastiness and superficiality of such acquaintances, the rapid change of the constituency of our so-called community-these factors interfere severely with the cultivation of selective relationships and contribute toward their devaluation. Love and friendship, leadership and loyalty, and other delicate personal relations, so necessary for wholesome personality integration, have been devaluated, minimized, disparaged in the course of social evolution.