A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE Few, especially in this country, realize that while Freudian themes have rarely found a place on the programs of the American Psychological Association, they have attracted great and growing attention and found frequent elaboration by students of literature, history, biography, sociology, morals and aesthetics, anthropology, education, and religion. They have given the world a new conception of both infancy and adolescence, and shed much ncw light upon characterology; given us a new and clearer view of sleep, dreams, reveries, and revealed hitherto unknown mental mechanisms common to normal and pathological states and processes, showing that the law of causation extends to the most incoherent acts and even verbigerations in insanity; gone far to clear up the terra incognita of hyst.eria j taught us to recognize morbid symptoms, often neurotic and psychotic in their germ; revealed the operationr: of the primitive mind so overlaid and repressed that we h~d o,lmost

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; PART ONE; The Psychology of Erro1&; PRP;FAC~ G Stanley Hall; LECTURE; I INTRODUCTION •; II THE PSYCliOLOGY OF E&kORS • • • • •; III THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ERRORs-(Continued); IV THE PSYCIlOLOGY 01" ERRORS -(Conclusion); PART TWO; The Dream,; ; ; PAGE; v; 1; 10; 23; ·u; V DIFFICULTIES AND PRELIMINARY ApPROACH • • • •• 63; VI HYPOTHESIS A~D TECHNIQUE OF JNTFRPRETATION • • • 78; VII ~fANIFEST DREAM CO:-lTENT AND LATENT DREAM THOUGHT 90; VIII DREAMS OF CIIILDIIOOD • •; IX THE DREAM CE:-lSO& • • •; X SVMBOIJS){ IN THE DREAM •; XI THE DREA:!I(-WORJt; XII ANALYSES OF SAMPLE DREAMS; 101; • 110; 122; 141; • • 153; XIII ARCHAIC REMNA~TS AND INFANTILISM IN THE DREAM •; XIV WISH FULFILL}'{E~T • • • • •; • 167; 180; XV DOUBTFUL POINTS A:-l'D CRJ'IlCISM 194; XVI; XVII; XVIII; XIX ; XX; PART THREE; General Theory of the Neu·r