Different view-points in psychoanalysis--_Vide_ Freud's causality and Adler's finality--Discussion of meaning of transference--The meaning of "line of least resistance"--Man as a herd-animal--Rich endowment with social sense--Should take pleasure in life--Error as necessary to progress as truth--Patient must be trained in independence--Analyst is caught in his own net if he makes hard-and-fast rules--Through the analyst's suggestion only the outer form, never the content, is determined--The patient may mislead the doctor, but this is disadvantageous and delays him. LETTER IX.--LOY 267 The line of least resistance is a compromise with all necessities--The analyst as accoucheur--The neurotic's faith in authority--Altruism innate in man--He advances in response to his own law. LETTER X.--JUNG 270 Transference is the central problem of analysis--It may be positive or negative--Projection of infantile phantasies on the doctor--Biological "duties"--The psyche does not only react, but gives its individual reply--We have an actual sexual problem to-day--Evidences thereof--We have no real sexual morality, only a legal attitude--Our moral views are too undifferentiated--The neurotic is ill not because he has lost his faith in morality, but because he has not found the new authority in himself. CHAPTER X ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 278 Content of the unconscious--Defined as sum of all psychical processes below the threshold of consciousness--Answer to question how does the unconscious behave in neurosis found in its effect on normal consciousness--Example of a merchant--Compensating function of the unconscious--Symptomatic acts--Nebuchadnezzar's dream discussed--Intuitive ideas, and insane manifestations both emanate from the unconscious--Eccentricities pre-exist a breakdown--In mental disorder unconscious processes break-through into consciousness and disturb equilibrium--True also in fanaticism--Pathological compensation in case of paranoia--Unconscious processes have to struggle against resistances in the conscious mind--Distortion--In morbid conditions the function of the unconscious is one of compensation. CHAPTER XI A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES 287