Freud's case of paranoid dementia--(Schreber case)--Two ways of regarding Goethe's "Faust"--Retrospective and prospective understanding--The scientific mind thinks causally--This is but one half of comprehension--Pathological and mythological formations, both structures of the imagination--Flournoy's case--Misunderstanding of author's analysis of it--Adaptations only possible to the introverted type by means of a world-philosophy--The extroverted type always arrives at a general theory subsequently--Psychasthenia is the neurosis of introversion, hysteria of extroversion--These diseases typify the general attitude of the types to the phenomena of the external world--The extreme difference in type a great obstacle to common understanding--The general result of the constructive method is a subjective view, not a scientific theory. CHAPTER XIV FOREWORD TO NEW EDITION 352 Adler's views more fully discussed--The psychological events of the war force the problems of the unconscious on society--The psychology of individuals corresponds to the psychology of nations. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES 354 I. THE BEGINNING OF PSYCHOANALYSIS The evolution of psychology--How little it has had to offer to the psychiatrist till Freud's discoveries--The origin and reception of psychoanalysis--The prejudiced attitude of certain physicians--Freud's view that his best work arouses greatest resistances--The Nancy School--Breuer's first case--"The talking cure"--The English "shock theory"--Followed by the trauma theory--Discussion of predisposition--Author's case of hysteria following fright from horses--The pathogenic importance of the hidden erotic conflict. II. THE SEXUAL THEORY 367