The Theory of Psychoanalysis
by C. G. Jung
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About This Book
Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known in English as Psychology of the Unconscious. That book represented his break from the Vienna school led by Freud, and also represented the end of the deeply emotional relationship between Jung and Freud. Jung's thought is now moving in his own path; he i...
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- The Theory of Psychoanalysis
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I Consideration of Early Hypotheses
- A Change in the Theory of Psychoanalysis
- The Traumatic Theory
- The Traumatic Theory Criticized
- The Conception of “Repression”
- The Theory of Sexual Trauma in Childhood
- Theory of Sexual Trauma Abandoned
- The Predisposition for the Trauma
- The Sexual Element in the Trauma
- The Infantile Sexual Phantasy
- CHAPTER II The Infantile Sexuality
- Objections to the Sexual Hypothesis
- The Conception of Sexuality
- The “Sexuality” of the Suckling
- The Polymorphic Perverse Sexuality of Infancy
- The Sexual Components as Energic Manifestations
- CHAPTER III The Conception of Libido
- The Energic Theory of Libido
- The Conception of Unconscious Phantasy
- The Sexual Terminology
- The Three Phases of Life
- The Sexual Definition of Libido Must be Abandoned
- The Problem of Libido in Dementia Præcox
- The Genetic Conception of Libido
- CHAPTER IV The Etiological Significance of the Infantile Sexuality
- The Infantile Sexual Etiology Criticized
- The Traumatic Theory—A False Way
- Retardation of the Emotional Development
- Introversion
- The Complex of the Parents
- Infantile Mental Attitude
- Unconscious Phantasy
- CHAPTER V The Unconscious
- CHAPTER VI The Dream
- The Method of Dream Analysis
- CHAPTER VII The Content of the Unconscious
- The Problems of the Incest-Complex
- CHAPTER VIII The Etiology of the Neuroses
- The Regression of Libido
- The Infantile Amnesia Criticized
- The Latent Sexual Period Criticized
- Further Remarks on the Etiology of Neurosis
- The Etiological Significance of the Actual Present
- The Etiological Significance of Failure of Adaptation
- The Significance of the Actual Conflict
- The Etiological Significance of Phantasy Criticized
- CHAPTER IX The Therapeutical Principles of Psychoanalysis
- The Conception of Transference
- Confession and Psychoanalysis
- The Analysis of the Transference
- The Problem of Self-Analysis
- The Analysis of Dreams
- CHAPTER X Some General Remarks on Psychoanalysis
- A Case of Neurosis in a Child
- Anamnesis
- Analytic Treatment
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