The history of the psychoanalytic movementFreud, Sigmund
History
The history of the psychoanalytic movement
Freud, Sigmund
Psychoanalysis -- History
At the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society we once heard
him claim for himself the priority for the viewpoints of the “unity of
the neuroses” and the “dynamic conception” of the same. This was a great
surprise for me as I had always believed that I had represented these
two principles before I had ever known Adler.[17]
This striving of Adler for a place in the sun has brought about,
however, one result, which must be considered beneficial to
psychoanalysis. When I was obliged to bring about Adler’s resignation
from the editorial staff of the Zentralblatt, after the appearance of
his irreconcilable scientific antagonisms, Adler also left the Vienna
group and founded a new society to which he first gave the tasteful name
“Society for Free Psychoanalysis.” But the outside public, unacquainted
with analysis, is evidently as little skilled in recognizing the
difference between the views of two psychoanalysts, as are Europeans in
recognizing the tints between two Chinese faces. The “free”
psychoanalysis remained in the shadow of the “official” and “orthodox”
one, and was treated only as an appendage of the latter. Then Adler took
the step for which we are thankful. He severed all connection with
psychoanalysis and named his teachings “The Individual Psychology.”
There is much space on God’s earth, and any one who can is surely
justified in tumbling about upon it uninhibited; but it is not desirable
to continue living under one roof when people no longer understand one
another and no longer get on together. Adler’s “Individual Psychology”
is now one of the many psychological movements opposed to
psychoanalysis, and its further development lies outside our interests.
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