An assertive and relatively stable China, it seems, must expand, lest pent up internal pressures tear it apart.

Denial of the fear of mortality and projection of the suppressed wish to transcend nature are the marks of a masked effort to create a biomedical science at war with its own stated purposes.

In countries with pent up demand for higher income and welfare, democratic fervor could lead to large budget deficits, excessive wage demands, and high inflation, ultimately resulting in severe economic crises.

NEW YORK Do nations have psychological processes even Freudian processes, such as collective egos that can be injured, and repressed guilt feelings that can well up from the collective unconscious just as individuals do? I believe that they do.

I also believe that just as an individual s dreams and slips of the tongue reveal his or her repressed knowledge, so a culture s dreamwork its films, pop music, visual arts, and even in the resonant jokes, cartoons and advertising images reveal the signs of this collective unconscious.