The Machinery of the Mind

One of Dion Fortune's first works (when she still wrote under her given name of Violet Firth), this book began life as a series of lectures on elementary psychology given at the Medico-Psychological Clinic. 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 Fortune's foundational views on Psychology, which does much to illuminate her later, more celebrated work in occult and esoteric circles.