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 right primitive name for what a bad experience does when it crushes valuable qualities in a person: portions of the psyche really have disappeared.
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 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 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 reverse of repression: not a pushing down but a drawing away, a seizure — explained by primitives as sorcery, and not extinct among the civilized.