The history of the psychoanalytic movementFreud, Sigmund
History
The history of the psychoanalytic movement
Freud, Sigmund
Psychoanalysis -- History
Another result of the Nuremberg Congress was the founding of the
Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse, which caused a reconciliation between
Adler and Stekel. It had originally been intended as an opposing
tendency and was to win back for Vienna the hegemony threatened by the
election of Jung. But when the two founders of the journal, under
pressure of the difficulty of finding a publisher, assured me of their
friendly intentions and as guarantee of their attitude gave me the right
to veto, I accepted the editorship and worked vigorously for this new
organ, the first number of which appeared in September, 1910.
I will not continue the history of the Psychoanalytic Congress. The
third one took place at Weimar, September, 1911, and even surpassed the
previous ones in spirit and scientific interest. J. J. Putnam, who was
present at this meeting, later expressed in America his satisfaction and
his respect for the “mental attitude” of those present and quoted words
which I was supposed to have used in reference to the latter: “They have
learned to endure a bit of truth.” As a matter of fact any one who has
attended scientific congresses must have received a lasting impression
in favor of the Psychoanalytic Association. I myself had presided over
two former congresses. I thought it best to give every lecturer ample
time for his paper and left the discussions of these lectures to take
place later as a sort of private exchange of ideas. Jung, who presided
over the Weimar meeting, reëstablished the discussions after each
lecture, which had not, however, proved disturbing at that time.
Two years later, in September, 1913, quite another picture was presented
by the congress at Münich which is still vividly recalled by those who
were present. It was presided over by Jung in an unamiable and incorrect
fashion: the lecturers were limited as to time, and the discussion
dwarfed the lectures. Through a malicious mood of chance the evil genius
of Hoche had taken up his residence in the same house in which the
analysts held their meetings. Hoche could easily have convinced himself
that his characterization of these psychoanalysts, as a sect, blindly
and meekly following their leader, was true _ad absurdum_. The fatiguing
and unedifying proceedings ended in the reëlection of Jung as president
of the International Psychoanalytic Association, which fact Jung
accepted, although two fifths of those present refused him their
support. We took leave from one another without feeling the need to meet
again!
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