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In view of the accepted characterization of psychoanalysis as a depth psychology and in view, particularly, of its own theory of depths beneath the manifest dream it may be well to state at the outset that I do not refer to that sort of depth. Indeed there is reason to doubt that it is truly psychological depth at all. What is hidden from direct observation by the dreamer and is arrived at by inference is not necessarily anything more basic or final. Neither is that which is biologically more primitive. They may be valuable to know but that is not quite the same thing. It takes something else to constitute psychological depth.
Probably it will be agreed that psychology has somehow more specifically to do with awareness (not merely consciousness) than has biology, even though the reader may not be prepared to accept my definition of psychology as the science of the organic development of awareness. By organic I do not mean referable to parts of a physical body; I do mean integral to the whole being.
At any rate, the point is that psychology requires ultimate concepts of its own quite as definitely outside the scope of present biology as does physics, the science of action sans awareness, on the other side. And, further, that what we must consider for psychological ultimates are those in terms of which we can be most finally, though scientifically, aware in relation both to fellow man and to our cosmos (not just interpersonally) rather than such, merely, as are already validated as specific mechanisms or dynamisms. The latter never reach the reality stature of the former for the whole psychological being. Whereas the former may grasp something both objectively existent and dynamic beyond any previous recognition. There is the crux of the matter.
Meanwhile, if incidentally, it is interesting to note that even the biologist has begun to sense something of the same need to extend his professional scope of awareness, though for his own different purposes, and so to admit wha