CHAPTER II

THE ASSOCIATION METHOD 94

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 intellectual causes--Principal types--Value of the experiment in dealing with neurotics.

LECTURE II.--FAMILIAR CONSTELLATIONS 119

Dr. Fürst's researches--Effect of environment and education on reactions--Effect of parental discord on children--Unconscious tendency to repetition of parental mistakes--Case of pathological association-concordance between mother and daughter--Neurosis, a counter-argument against the personality with which the patient is most nearly concerned--How to free the individual from unconscious attachments to the milieu.

LECTURE III.--EXPERIENCES CONCERNING THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF THE CHILD 132

Importance of emotional processes in children--Little Anna's questions--Arrival of the baby brother--Anna's embarrassment and hostility--Introversion of the child--Of the adolescent--Her pathological interest in the Messina earthquake--The meaning of her fear--Anna's theories of birth--Meaning of her questions--Her father tells her something of origin of her little brother--Her fears now subside--The unconscious meaning of the child's wish to sit up late--Anna's equivalent to the "lumpf-theory" of little Hans--The stork-theory again--Author's remarks on the sexual enlightenment of the child.