Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Psychoanalysis
For the patient any method that works is good, though some
more valuable than others--The doctor must choose what commends
itself to his scientific conscience--Why the author gave up the
use of hypnotism--Three cases quoted--Breuer and Freud's method
a great advance in psychic treatment--Evolution of author's
views--Importance of conception that behind the neurosis lies
a moral conflict--Divergence from Freud's sexual theory of
neurosis--The doctor's responsibility for the cleanliness of his
own hands--Necessity that the psychoanalyst should be analysed--He
is successful in so far as he has succeeded in his own moral
development.
LETTER III.--LOY 244
Opportunism _v._ scientific honour--Psychoanalysis no more
than hypnotism gets rid of "transference"--Cases of enuresis
nocturna, and of washing-mania treated by hypnosis--On what grounds
should such useful treatment be dispensed with?--The difficulty of
finding a rational solution for the moral conflict--The doctor's
dilemma of the two consciences.
LETTER IV.--JUNG 248
Author's standpoint that of the scientist, not
practical physician--The analyst works in spite of the
transference--Psychoanalysis not the only way--Sometimes less
efficacious than any known method--Cases must be selected--For the
author and his patients it is the best way--The real solution of
the moral conflict comes from within, and then only because the
patient has been brought to a new standpoint.
LETTER. V.--LOY 252
"What is truth?"--Parable of the prism--All man attains is
relative truth--Fanaticism is the enemy to science--Psychoanalysis
a method of dealing with basic motives of the human soul--Must not
each case be treated individually?--Morals are above all relative.
LETTER VI.--JUNG 256
Definition of psychoanalysis--Technique--So-called chance is
the law--Rules well-nigh impossible--The patients' unconscious is
the analysts' best confederate--Questions of morality and education
find solutions for themselves in later stages of analysis.
LETTER VII.--LOY 258
Contradictions in psychoanalytic literature--Should the doctor
canalise the patient's libido?--Does he not indirectly suggest
dreams to patient?
LETTER VIII.--JUNG 261
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