Stages on Life's Way, p. 161-162
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845)
“To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 60
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