Category: Psychiatry/Psychology
An all-pervading feeling of profound responsibility to society in general, can be the only reason for a man, by far the most celebrated expert in his special field of endeavor, not to try to maintain a monopoly of his scientific findings, but make them accessible to the public...
An all-pervading feeling of profound responsibility to society in general, can be the only reason for a man, by far the most celebrated expert in his special field of endeavor,...
2. Part 2To all appearances, nothing takes place between patient and psychoanalyst except that they talk with each other. The psychoanalyst does not take recourse to any instruments, whi...
3. Part 3And now, the example I promised you: The “It” is never assailed by any conflicts. Within the “It,” contradiction and opposition dwell undisturbed in close proximity to each othe...
4. Part 4I have told you so much about psychology, in order that you may see that our analysis is just a part of applied psychology; to be sure, that part of psychology which is unknown...
5. Part 5To be sure, in the interest of the child, it is necessary to combine analytical influence with educational measures. This is a technique still to be perfected. There is practica...
6. Part 6I have already told you how we employ this especially great “suggestive” influence. Not to suppress the symptoms—it is here where the analytical method is utterly unlike any oth...
7. Part 7But the dilemma that presents itself with this piece of legislature, is neither important nor difficult. It would concern only a handful of people who would not even suffer appr...
8. Part 8In reference to the interest of the physicians, I do not believe that medicine has anything to gain by annexing psychoanalysis. Today, medical training requires five years, with...
9. Part 9What impressed me most of all while I was with Charcot were his latest investigations upon hysteria, some of which were carried out under my own eyes. He had proved, for instanc...
10. Part 10Under the influence of my surprising discovery, I now took a momentous step. I went beyond the domain of hysteria and began to investigate the sexual life of the so-called neura...
11. Part 11The sexual function, as I found, is in existence from the very beginning of the individual’s life, though at first it is assimilated to the other vital functions and does not be...
12. Part 12We have explained that the unconscious impulse which causes the dream connects itself with part of the day’s residues, with some unexhausted interest of waking life; this lends...
13. Part 13There is no more urgent need in psychology than for a securely founded theory of the instincts on which it might then be possible to build further. Nothing of the sort exists, h...
14. Part 14Theodor Reik and G. Róheim, the ethnologist, have taken up the line of thought which I developed in _Totem and Taboo_, and, in a series of important works, have extended it, amp...