Definition and History of Psychoanalysis, And, Freud's Theories of the Neuroses (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It is now high time to give the reader an answer to a ques tion which must have gradually aroused his impatience. How does all this concern the educator? Professionally, he has nothing to do with hysterical individuals. I cannot better answer the justifiable interpolation than by continuing with my sketch of the history of the development of psycho analysis.

Freud recognized ever more clearly that the processes which produced nervous disturbances are also of highest influence on the mental life of normal individuals and can be equally well studied in them. Without being unfaithful to the med ical interest, the Vienna neurologist developed a new kind of psychology which penetrated to the unconscious causes of mental performances. He once defined psychoanalysis its the investigation of the unconscious part of the individual mental For a long time astute judges of human nature had asserted that many of the highest performances of the mind were created, not in the laboratory of conscious thinking, feeling and willing, but in the subterranean cham bers which had often been denominated as the unconscious. Schiller describes this conception in the familiar lines.

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