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The psychology of the aggregate mind of an audience
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Ill THE COMMON ELEMENTS What are the elements of the aggregate mind? To make a clear analysis, we must know first what are the different phases of the individual mind. Having developed this, we shall have the grounds from which we may proceed to a study of the aggregate mind itself. Modern psychology holds that the mind is made up of a connected series of mental states, wherein the old- time faculties known as the instincts, emotions, imagination, reason, willing, etc., find their play. While the science of psychology is possible only because of the fact that all individuals have similar or like mental states and brains, and that all individual minds are governed by the same set of laws; yet psychology shows also that each mind is unlike in the development of these common elements after a certain point has been reached. This differentiation gives us the individual. So, while we have individual minds, yet we have also a common mind. The experimental school of psychology shows that the psychical element is present in the different mental states; like the instincts, the emotions, the imagination, the reason and the will, in different degrees, the -3 order in which they are found constituting an ascending psychic scale. The reflex actions have the least. Then comes in order the instincts, the emotions, and so on, until we reach the reason and the will. The instincts are one of the lowest elements in the psychic scale. Man has more of them than any other animal. James defines this phase of the mind as follows: "Instinct is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without the foresight of the end, and without previous education in the performance. Instincts are the functional correlatives of structure. With the presence of a ce...
This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
Ill THE COMMON ELEMENTS What are the elements of the aggregate mind? To make a clear analysis, we must know first what are the different phases of the individual mind. Having developed this, we shall have the grounds from which we may proceed to a study of the aggregate mind itself. Modern psychology holds that the mind is made up of a connected series of mental states, wherein the old- time faculties known as the instincts, emotions, imagination, reason, willing, etc., find their play. While the science of psychology is possible only because of the fact that all individuals have similar or like mental states and brains, and that all individual minds are governed by the same set of laws; yet psychology shows also that each mind is unlike in the development of these common elements after a certain point has been reached. This differentiation gives us the individual. So, while we have individual minds, yet we have also a common mind. The experimental school of psychology shows that the psychical element is present in the different mental states; like the instincts, the emotions, the imagination, the reason and the will, in different degrees, the -3 order in which they are found constituting an ascending psychic scale. The reflex actions have the least. Then comes in order the instincts, the emotions, and so on, until we reach the reason and the will. The instincts are one of the lowest elements in the psychic scale. Man has more of them than any other animal. James defines this phase of the mind as follows: "Instinct is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without the foresight of the end, and without previous education in the performance. Instincts are the functional correlatives of structure. With the presence of a ce...