loss of soul, n.All

Loss of soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what threatens man when he imagines he can control everything by will and reason alone and paddle his own canoe.

Loss of soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the tearing loose of a complex that becomes a tyrannical usurper of consciousness, driving a man to one-sided acts that end in self-destruction; to call a passion daemonic is a safeguard, sending its source back to the unconscious where it belongs.

Loss of soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the reverse of repression: not a pushing down but a drawing away, a seizure — explained by primitives as sorcery, and not extinct among the civilized.

Loss of soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what the primitive calls a soul running off like a dog in the night; we call it abaissement du niveau mental — a low barometer, the body like lead.

Loss of soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where repression of the childish ends: the more consistently we repress the children's land, the more we lose instinct, until loss of instinct becomes loss of soul.

Loss of soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the right primitive name for what a bad experience does when it crushes valuable qualities in a person: portions of the psyche really have disappeared.