The Machinery of the Mind: (Aziloth Books)

One of Dion Fortunes 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.The text covers the major aspects of the life of the mind: consciousness instincts repression symbolization fantasies dreams and hypnosis.An invaluable introduction to Dion Fortunes foundational views on psychology which does much to illuminate her later more celebrated work in occult and esoteric circles.