The result of the official anathema against psychoanalysis was that the
analysts began to come closer together. At the second Congress, held at
Nuremberg in 1910, they formed themselves, on the proposal of S.
Ferenczi, into an “International Psycho-Analytical Association,” divided
into a number of local societies, but under a common president. The
Association survived the Great War and still exists, consisting today of
branch societies in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Great
Britain, Holland, Russia and India as well as two in the United
States.[13] I arranged that C. G. Jung should be appointed as the first
President, which turned out later to have been a most unfortunate step.
At the same time a second journal devoted to psychoanalysis was started,
the _Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse_, edited by Adler and Stekel, and a
little later a third, _Imago_, edited by two non-medical analysts, H.
Sachs and O. Rank, and intended to deal with the application of analysis
to the mental sciences. Soon afterwards Bleuler published a paper in
defence of psychoanalysis.[14] Though it was a relief to find honesty
and straight-forward logic for once taking part in the dispute yet I
could not feel completely satisfied by Bleuler’s essay. He strove too
eagerly after an appearance of impartiality; nor is it a matter of
chance that it is to him that our science owes the valuable concept of
_ambivalence_. In later papers Bleuler adopted such a critical attitude
towards the theoretical structure of analysis and rejected or threw
doubts upon such essential parts of it, that I could not help asking
myself in astonishment what could be left of it for him to admire. Yet
not only has he subsequently uttered the strongest pleas in favor of
“depth psychology,” but he based his comprehensive study of
schizophrenia upon it. Nevertheless Bleuler did not for long remain a
member of the International Psycho-Analytical Association; he resigned
from it as a result of misunderstandings with Jung, and the
Burghölzli[15] was lost to analysis.
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