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causes us to consider them as absurd and unintelligible; the universality of
those symbols, however, makes them very transparent to the trained observer.
Fourthly, Freud showed that sexual desires play an enormous part in our
unconscious, a part which puritanical hypocrisy has always tried to minimize,
if not to ignore entirely.
Finally, Freud established a direct connection between dreams and insanity,
between the symbolic visions of our sleep and the symbolic actions of the
mentally deranged.
There were, of course, many other observations which Freud made while
dissecting the dreams of his patients, but not all of them present as much
interest as the foregoing nor were they as revolutionary or likely to wield as
much influence on modern psychiatry.
Other explorers have struck the path blazed by Freud and leading into
man’s unconscious. Jung of Zurich, Adler of Vienna and Kempf of
Washington, D.C., have made to the study of the unconscious, contributions
which have brought that study into fields which Freud himself never dreamt
of invading.
One fact which cannot be too emphatically stated, however, is that but for
Freud’s wishfulfillment theory of dreams, neither Jung’s “energic theory,” nor
Adler’s theory of “organ inferiority and compensation,” nor Kempf’s
“dynamic mechanism” might have been formulated.
Freud is the father of modern abnormal psychology and he established the
psychoanalytical point of view. No one who is not well grounded in Freudian
lore can hope to achieve any work of value in the field of psychoanalysis.
On the other hand, let no one repeat the absurd assertion that Freudism is a
sort of religion bounded with dogmas and requiring an act of faith. Freudism
as such was merely a stage in the development of psychoanalysis, a stage out
of which all but a few bigoted camp followers, totally lacking in originality,
have evolved. Thousands of stones have been added to the structure erected
by the Viennese physician and many more will be added in the course of time.
But the new additions to that structure would collapse like a house of cards
but for the original foundations which are as indestructible as Harvey’s
statement as to the circulation of the blood.
Regardless of whatever additions or changes have been made to the
original structure, the analytic point of view remains unchanged.
That point of view is not only revolutionising all the methods of diagnosis
and treatment of mental derangements, but compelling the intelligent, up-to-
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Buch Dream Psychology"
Dream Psychology
- Titel
- Dream Psychology
- Autor
- Sigmund Freud
- Datum
- 1920
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 114
- Schlagwörter
- Neurology, Neurologie, Träume, Psycholgie, Traum
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International
- Medizin
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction 4
- Chapter 1: Dreams have a meaning 9
- Chapter 2: The Dream mechanism 20
- Chapter 3: Why the dream diguises the desire 34
- Chapter 4: Dream analysis 43
- Chapter 5: Sex in dreams 54
- Chapter 6: The Wish in dreams 67
- Chapter 7: The Function of the dream 79
- Chapter 8: The Primary and Secondary process - Regression 89
- Chapter 9: The Unconscious and Consciousness - Reality 104