In order to make psychoanalysis available for educational purposes, all the metamorphoses that have been the work of the last few years were needed.
Let it be made plain at once that psychoanalysisis not an anamnesis, as those who know everything without learning are pleased to believe.
But who has ever claimed psychoanalysis should be employed in every sort of case, and on every occasion?
Psychoanalysis hitherto has proceeded to the unravelling of these phantasies because they were considered to be ætiologically significant.
In the sphere of psychoanalysis Freud follows the psychology of Extraversion, Adler that of Introversion.
The analysis which the literary critic makes of the subject-matter furnished by the poet may be compared with psychoanalysis in its method, even to the very errors which occur therein.
The principles according to which psychoanalysis solves dreams are therefore exceedingly simple, and have really been known for a long time.
In psychoanalysis I use hypnosis to help the patient to overcome "resistances.
To this questionpsychoanalysis gives the invariable answer: Resistance always springs from a peculiar sexual development.
That discord still reigns round the ultimate questions of psychoanalysis need not surprise us when we consider the difficulty.
Many analysts, especially those who have worked in psychoanalysis for a long time, previously used therapeutic suggestion, and are therefore familiar with its workings.
The material enables us to understand the structure of the rumour, but psychoanalysis cannot rest satisfied with that.
Very well--but through psychoanalysiswe have learned that these peculiar compulsion symptoms may be permanently removed just like any other disease of normal persons.
Here is the gap which psychoanalysis aims to fill.
Nay, indeed, psychoanalysis claims that these same sexual impulses have made contributions whose value cannot be overestimated to the highest cultural, artistic and social achievements of the human mind.
You will continue, "We understand that it is the peculiar technique of psychoanalysis that the solution of its problems is discovered by the analyzed subject himself.
We do not believe it, but we understand why children's physicians and pedagogues have decidedly rejected psychoanalysis and its results.
Society thus brands what is unpleasant as untrue, denying the conclusions of psychoanalysiswith logical and pertinent arguments.
Misuse of psychoanalysis is possible in various ways; above all, transference is a dangerous remedy in the hands of an unconscientious physician.
A race of psychiatrists that has gone through the school of psychoanalysis as a preparatory science most first grow up.
The process usually adjusts itself through a special psychic mechanism which is designated in psychoanalysis as "projection.
Psychoanalysis has revealed the fact that every dream is the realization of some desire, usually hidden from our conscious thought by our habitual repression.
The practice ofpsychoanalysis as a therapeutic method is really hardly anything more than re-education.
If Freudian psychoanalysis looks to the past for insight, logotherapy focuses instead on the future, on a person's life task.
He soon separated himself from psychoanalysis and began to formulate his theory of transactional analysis (TA).
Stampfl was trained as a clinical psychologist at Loyola of Chicago and was influenced by both psychoanalysis and the psychology of learning.
On the other hand, brief psychoanalysis may begin by focusing on specific problems experienced by a patient, but treatment quickly widens in scope to touch on matters that affect the {121} patient's life in a general way.
Psychoanalysis is best suited to individuals with these characteristics: * They are verbally articulate.
He describes his experience in these terms: Psychoanalysis is a piece of the work of conciliation with one's own origins.
I refer them to the chapter: Mind and Body, an indivisible unit, in my book, "Psychoanalysis and Behaviour.
To the uninitiated and sceptical, dream symbols generally appear rather ludicrous fancies and not a few opponents of psychoanalysis hold that symbols were resorted to by analysts unable to read an obvious wish fulfilment in every dream.
Before considering the origin of dreams I must restate briefly a proposition which I have discussed at length in Psychoanalysis and Behaviour, the indivisibility of the human organism.
Psychoanalysis is used in medical practice to discover and relieve the spiritual causes of neurotic phenomena.
This point appears to me to be introversion, first because it is related to the previously mentioned intro-determination, and second, because it is familiar to psychoanalysis and is of great importance in anagogic method.
According to the observations of psychoanalysis there is a bit of Œdipus in every one of us.
The results of this research will help us naturally in the examination of our parable, except in so far as I must treat some of the conclusions of psychoanalysis with reserve as problematic.
The spiritual refuse that psychoanalysis uncovers is like the manure on which our cultivated fruits thrive.
For example, if by psychoanalysis we deduce father and mother, etc.
The question as to how widely psychoanalysis may be employed would at this time lead us too far, yet it will be considered in Sect.
Since psychoanalysis has found acceptation, many of its followers believe they are able to solve, with their work of analysis alone, all the psychological, esthetic and mythological problems that come up.
Believing that I have by this time sufficiently prepared the reader who was unfamiliar with psychoanalysis for the psychoanalytic part of my investigation, I will dispense with further time-consuming explanations.
My later application of psychoanalysis will show what reservations I make concerning Freud’s doctrines.
It indicates that psychoanalysis has a future in literary criticism, if not that all art and artists have, from the beginning, more or less anticipated as they now illustrate it.
This isn't psychoanalysis in the old sense at all.
Indeed, a recent work on psychoanalysis has for its title The Mechanisms of Character Formation.
Psychoanalysis answers this question by stating that to fly or to be a bird in the dream is only a concealment of another wish, to the recognition of which one can reach by more than one linguistic or objective bridge.
In general we must mark out the limits which are set up for the working capacity of psychoanalysis in biography so that every omitted explanation should not be held up to us as a failure.
It is true that psychoanalysis fulfilled this task in only a small number of people, but all investigation thus far undertaken brought the same surprising results.
Let the reader be patient for a while and not flare up with indignation and refuse to follow psychoanalysis because in its very first applications it leads to an unpardonable slander of the memory of a great and pure man.
Psychoanalysis has taught us the intimate connection between the father complex and belief in God, and daily demonstrates to us how youthful persons lose their religious belief as soon as the authority of the father breaks down.
Psychoanalysis offers the means to fill this gap and to put to test the assertions of the homosexuals.
The impulses and their transformations are the last things that psychoanalysiscan discern.
It is, therefore, only the author who forced psychoanalysis to furnish an expert opinion on such insufficient material, who is to be held responsible for the failure.
Even if psychoanalysis does not explain to us the fact of Leonardo's artistic accomplishment, it still gives us an understanding of the expressions and limitations of the same.
The author's application of psychoanalysis to these problems has the directness and explicitness which we are accustomed to find in Freud's own writings.
Psychoanalysis tells us that this is not perhaps a shocking exception but a matter of everyday occurrence.
But unfortunately no one undergoes such an expensive and time-consuming treatment as psychoanalysis for moon walking, so that the hoped for illumination can come at the best only as a by-product in the psychoanalysis of neurotics.
The Significance of Psychoanalysisfor the Mental Sciences.
The endeavor in the translation has been to make accessible to our English readers the clear and direct psychoanalysis of the author and the peculiar psychologic and literary value of the book.
Significance ofPsychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences.
All the leading foreign psychoanalytic journals are regularly abstracted, and all books dealing with psychoanalysis are reviewed.
It is after this fragment doubly regrettable that a penetrating psychoanalysis was not here possible.
Psychoanalysis goes further and states that the two contrasting feelings not infrequently take the same person as their object.
Doctors who practice psychoanalysis have frequently had to deal with the symptom of over tender care for the welfare of relatives or with wholly unfounded self reproaches after the death of a beloved person.
The school of psychoanalysis could thus assert that at bottom no one believes in his own death, which amounts to saying: in the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his immortality.
Adrian and Yealland decry psychoanalysis on the score of time limitations.
Re psychoanalysis and its modifications, see remarks under Case 496, under which several favorable opinions were mentioned.
Boschi in his report on French conditions gives no reference concerning psychoanalysis or hypnosis.
Jung and Adler deserve mention as representing varieties of psychoanalysisthat differ more or less radically from that of Freud.
It involves a very forced interpretation of child life, an interpretation that could never have arisen from a direct study of children, but which has seemed useful in the psychoanalysis of maladjusted adults.
Something has always been needed to supplement it and this is found in psychoanalysis in which conditions are reversed.
I decline, however, to admit that the temperamental peculiarities of one group are more in need either of justification or of rectification throughpsychoanalysis than those of the others.
Treatment by psychoanalysis represents an education--the removal of inhibitions which are fixations or arrests.
Freud explains it in this manner: when one treats the patient by hypnotic suggestion, one introduces a new idea from outside in exchange for the morbid idea; if psychoanalysis is applied, then one simply eliminates the morbid idea.
They correspond on the one hand, to the numerous partial motives which psychoanalysis studies to great advantage, and on the other hand, to the ethical motives which are only thoroughly studied by philosophy.
Freud, in referring to psychoanalysis of hysterical patients, says, "It is not possible to press upon the patient things which he apparently does not know, or to influence the results of the analysis by exciting his expectations.
Psychoanalysis cannot be employed upon a number of subjects at once.
In psychoanalysisan act is nothing, a tendency everything.
As has already been said, psychoanalysis aims at bringing into consciousness all the forgotten things.
The psychoanalysis of a nymphomaniac, including an affair with her boy-friend's lesbian sister.
Sad, sad, sad story of the psychoanalysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen on sea or land.
Psychoanalysis and Behavior" and "Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams" NEW YORK THE JAMES A.
I have never carried through any psychoanalysisof a man or a woman," Freud states, "without discovering a very significant homosexual tendency.
Any difficulties which psychoanalysis may help to elucidate mainly concern the early history of the case in childhood, and, regarding these, psychoanalysis may sometimes raise questions which it cannot definitely settle.
In the meantime, psychoanalysis should be verified indubitably as squaring closely with the claims of its sponsors, then be applied sequentially in the work, or wait upon practical and more important exactions.
However, those who look for such as psychoanalysis to carry the burden of the quiring for reformation, are destined for disappointment.
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, being specializations, are not.
In contrast to the common sentiment of all people in favor of free will in mental processes, the facts elicited by psychoanalysis point to a strict determinism of every psychic process.
Stekel,[8] a Viennese psychotherapeutist, claims to have repeatedly proved to himself by psychoanalysis that the root of all these cases of kleptomania is ungratified sexual instinct.
To strip it of its highly technical considerations, psychoanalysis is primarily and essentially a study of motives, intended to bring about a better understanding of human conduct.
There was a flavour of popularized psychoanalysis about this, and the doctor drew in the corners of his mouth and gave his head a critical slant.
I don't think I'm a subject for real psychoanalysis at all.
Just as psychoanalysis can, in some measure, reconstruct the personal life, so social analysis can reconstruct social life and turn into productive channels the innocent but too often destructive forces of original nature.
The method of psychoanalysis gives us also much insight into the phenomena of genius, and the hope that we may ultimately come to understand it.
Through psychoanalysis we are enabled to understand the "split" personality and its cause.
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