The Machinery of the Mind

<p>One of Dion Fortune’s first works – when she still wrote under her given name Violet Firth – this book began life as a series of lectures on elementary psychology given at the Medico-Psychological Clinic in Brunswick Square London where she was a counsellor from 1914-1916. Prior to her employment there Fortune had studied psychology and psychoanalysis at London University.</p><p>The text covers the major aspects of the life of the mind: consciousness instincts repression symbolization fantasies dreams and hypnosis.</p><p>An invaluable introduction to Dion Fortune’s foundational views on psychology which does much to illuminate her later more celebrated work in occult and esoteric circles.</p>