The history of the psychoanalytic movement — John Shaqi
The history of the psychoanalytic movementFreud, Sigmund
History
The history of the psychoanalytic movement
Freud, Sigmund
Psychoanalysis -- History
My book on Wit[13] furnished the first examples of the application of
analytic thinking to esthetic themes. Everything else is still waiting
for workers, who can expect a rich harvest in this very field. We are
lacking here in workers from these respective specialties and in order
to attract such, Hanns Sachs founded in 1912, the journal Imago, edited
by himself and Rank. Hitschmann and v. Winterstein made a beginning with
the psychoanalytic elucidation of philosophical systems and
personalities. The continuation and deeper treatment of the same is much
to be desired.
The revolutionary findings of psychoanalysis concerning the psychic life
of the child, the part played therein by sexual impulses (v.
Hug-Helmuth) and the fate of such participation of sexuality which
becomes useless for the purpose of propagation, naturally drew attention
to pedagogics, and instigated the effort to push the analytical
viewpoint into the foreground of this sphere. Recognition is due to the
Rev. Pfister for having begun this application of analysis with honest
enthusiasm, and for having brought it to the notice of ministers and
educators.[14] He succeeded in winning over a number of Swiss pedagogues
as sympathizers in this work. It is said that some preferred to remain
circumspectly in the background. A portion of the Vienna analysts seem
to have landed in their retreat from psychoanalysis on a sort of medical
pedagogy. (Adler and Furtmüller, “Heilen and Bilden,” 1913.)
I have attempted in these incomplete suggestions to indicate the, as
yet, hardly visible wealth of associations which have sprung up between
medical psychoanalysis and other fields of science. There is material
for the work of a whole generation of investigators and I doubt not that
this work will be done when once the resistance to psychoanalysis as
such has been overcome.[15]
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