Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

In common with other sciences, psychology had to go through its scholastic-philosophic stage, and to some extent this has lasted on into the present time. This philosophic psych...

In that wide field of psychopathic deficiency where Science has demarcated the diseases of epilepsy, hysteria and neurasthenia, we meet scattered observations concerning certain...

When you honoured me with an invitation to lecture at Clark University, a wish was expressed that I should speak about my methods of work, and especially about the psychology of...

What you said at our last conversation was extraordinarily stimulating. I was expecting you to throw light upon the interpretation of my own and my patients' dreams from the sta...

Since the breach with the Viennese school upon the question of the fundamental explanatory principle of analysis--that is, the question if it be sexuality or energy--our concept...

Psychiatry is the stepchild of medicine. All the other branches of medicine have one great advantage over it--the scientific methods can be applied; there are things to be seen,...

Psychoanalysis is not only scientific, but also technical in character; and from results technical in their nature, has been developed a new psychological science which might be...

Freud has pointed out in many places[150] with unmistakable clearness that the psychosexual relationship of the child towards his parents, particularly towards the father, posse...

of Part I. which pointed out how the dramatic conflict corresponds to a personal conflict in the soul of the poet; we should be glad of an exposition which pointed out how this...

About a year ago the school authorities in N. asked me to give a professional opinion as to the mental condition of Marie X., a thirteen year old schoolgirl. Marie had been expe...

A dream is a psychic structure which at first sight appears to be in striking contrast with conscious thought, because judging by its form and substance it apparently does not l...

It is well known that in their general physiognomy hysteria and dementia præcox present a striking contrast, which is seen particularly in the attitude of the sufferers towards...

After many years' experience I now know that it is extremely difficult to discuss psychoanalysis at public meetings and at congresses. There are so many misconceptions of the ma...

When we speak of a thing as being "unconscious" we must not forget that from the point of view of the functioning of the brain a thing may be unconscious to us in two ways--phys...

The symbolism of numbers which greatly engaged the imaginative philosophy of earlier centuries has again acquired a fresh interest from the analytic investigations of Freud and...

Bleuler's work contains a noteworthy clinical analysis of "Negativism." Besides giving a very precise and discerning summary of the various manifestations of negativism, the aut...

The evolution of psychology--How little it has had to offer to the psychiatrist till Freud's discoveries--The origin and reception of psychoanalysis--The prejudiced attitude of...

Development of concepts--Removal of repression does not empty the unconscious--Repression is a special phenomenon--The unconscious contains not only repressed material, but subl...

Difficulty of demarcation in borderline cases between epilepsy, hysteria, and mental deficiency--Somnambulism an hysterical manifestation--A case of spontaneous somnambulism, wi...

of the father-complex and on the one side has elevated her childish love to the adoration of God, on the other has turned the obsessive force of her father's attraction into the...

My short sketch on the Content of the Psychoses which first appeared in the series of "Schriften zur Angewandten Seelenkunde" under Freud's editorship was designed to give the n...

The number of psychoanalytic investigations into the psychology of dementia præcox has considerably increased since the publication of my book upon the subject.[202] When, in 19...

LECTURE I.--Formula for test--Disturbances of reaction as complex-indicators--Discovery of a culprit by means of test--Disturbances of reaction show emotional rather than intell...

Doctors know too little of psychology, and psychologists of medicine--Strong prejudice aroused by Freud's conception of the importance of the sexual moment--The commoner prejudi...

Discussion of psychological _v._ physical origin of mental disease--Mediæval conception of madness as work of evil spirits--Development of materialistic idea that diseases of th...

Investigation of a rumour in a girls' school--The rumour arose from a dream--Teacher's suspicions--Was the rumour an invention and not, as alleged, the recital of a dream?--Inte...

Freud's case of paranoid dementia--(Schreber case)--Two ways of regarding Goethe's "Faust"--Retrospective and prospective understanding--The scientific mind thinks causally--Thi...

Author's standpoint that of the scientist, not practical physician--The analyst works in spite of the transference--Psychoanalysis not the only way--Sometimes less efficacious t...

Content of the unconscious--Defined as sum of all psychical processes below the threshold of consciousness--Answer to question how does the unconscious behave in neurosis found...

For the patient any method that works is good, though some more valuable than others--The doctor must choose what commends itself to his scientific conscience--Why the author ga...

Psychosexual relationship of child to father--Fürst's experiments quoted--The association experiment typical for man's psychological life--Adaptation to father--Father-complex p...

Difficulties of public discussion--Competence to form an opinion presupposes a knowledge of the fundamental literature--The abandoned trauma theory--Fixation--The importance of...

Different view-points in psychoanalysis--_Vide_ Freud's causality and Adler's finality--Discussion of meaning of transference--The meaning of "line of least resistance"--Man as...

Striking contrast between hysteria and dementia præcox--Extroversion and Introversion--Repression--Hysterical transference and repression the mechanism of extroversion--Deprecia...

Transference is the central problem of analysis--It may be positive or negative--Projection of infantile phantasies on the doctor--Biological "duties"--The psyche does not only...

Bleuler's concept of ambivalency and ambitendency--Every tendency balanced by its opposite--Schizophrenic negativism--Bleuler's summary of its causes--The painfulness of the com...

Opportunism _v._ scientific honour--Psychoanalysis no more than hypnotism gets rid of "transference"--Cases of enuresis nocturna, and of washing-mania treated by hypnosis--On wh...

Symbolism of numbers has acquired fresh interest from Freud's investigations--Example of number dream of middle-aged man--How the number originates--A second dream also contains...

Psychic structure of dream contrasted with that of conscious thought--Why a dream seems meaningless--Freud's empirical evidence--Technique, analysis of a dream--The causal and t...