The machinery of the mind (Registro nro. 118177)
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| LC control number | 22010708 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BF |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Firth, Violet M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Violet Mary), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1890-1946 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The machinery of the mind |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-12-14 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- The physical vehicle of consciousness -- The evolution of the nervous system -- How an idea enters the mind -- The organisation of the upper levels of the mind -- The organisation of the lower levels of the mind -- Complexes -- The instincts -- The self-preservation instinct -- Diseases of the self-preservation instinct -- The reproductive instinct -- Development of the reproductive instinct -- Diseases of the reproductive instinct -- Sublimation -- Maladaptation to environment and psychopathology -- Conflict -- Repression -- Dissociation -- Symbolisation -- Phantasies, dreams, and delusions -- Psychotherapy -- Psychoanalysis -- Hypnosis, suggestion, and autosuggestion -- The practical application of psychology -- Conclusion. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | chenzw, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The machinery of the mind by Violet M. Firth is a concise, popular introduction to psychology and psychotherapy written in the early 20th century. It explains how modern psychology conceives the structure and functions of the mind and applies that understanding to everyday behavior, mental distress, and practical self-care.<br/><br/>The work sketches the mind as layered—focus and fringe of consciousness, a foreconscious store of accessible memories, a deeper subconscious, and an automatic level—filtered by “censors” that regulate what reaches awareness. It shows how ideas cluster into emotionally charged complexes, how memory and association work, and how three core instincts—self-preservation, reproduction, and the social (herd) instinct—drive feeling and conduct, including the development and possible disorders of sexuality. Mental trouble is framed as maladaptation: conflicts between instincts, or between person and environment, may lead to repression, dissociation, symbolic substitutions, and the wish-fulfilling logic of phantasies, dreams, and delusions. The book surveys therapies—psychoanalysis (contrasting Freud and Jung), word-association, hypnosis, suggestion, and autosuggestion—while advocating re-education, thought control, and sublimation (redirecting energy into creative outlets) over crude repression. Practical tips address concentration, memory by association, trusting subconscious problem-solving, and guarding against harmful self-suggestion. It concludes by urging integration of our primitive drives with reason and social responsibility, aiming at forward-looking adaptation rather than a nostalgic return to the primitive. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Psychology |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tansley, A. G., Sir |
| Fuller form of name | (Arthur George), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1871-1955 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/machineryofmind00firt/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/machineryofmind00firt/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77457">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77457</a> |
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