The Theory of Psychoanalysis Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series, No. 19 The Theory of Psychoanalysis BY DR. C. G. JUNG of Zurich NEW YORK THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1915 NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE MONOGRAPH SERIES Edited by Drs. SMITH ELY JELLIFFE and WM. A. WHITE Numbers Issued 1. Outlines of Psychiatry. (4th Edition.) $3.00. By Dr. William A. White. 2. Studies in Paranoia. By Drs. N. Gierlich and M. Friedman. 3. The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. (Out of Print). By Dr. C. G Jung. 4. Selected Papers on Hysteria and other Psychoneuroses (2d Edition.) $2.50. By Prof. Sigmund Freud. 5. The Wassermann Serum Diagnosis in Psychiatry. $2.00. By Dr. Felix Plaut. 6. Epidemic Poliomyelitis. New York, 1907. (Out of Print). 7. Three Contributions to Sexual Theory. $2.00. By Prof. Sigmund Freud. 8. Mental Mechanisms. $2.00. By Dr. Wm. A. White. 9. Studies in Psychiatry. $2.00. New York Psychiatrical Society. 10. Handbook of Mental Examination Methods. $2.00. By Shepherd Ivory Franz. 11. The Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism. $0.60. By Professor E. Bleuler. 12. Cerebellar Functions. $3.00. By Dr. André-Thomas. 13. History of Prison Psychoses. $1.25. By Drs. P. Nitsche and K. Wilmanns. 14. General Paresis. $3.00. By Prof. E. Kraepelin. 15. Dreams and Myths. $1.00. By Dr. Karl Abraham. 16. Poliomyelitis. $3.00. Dr. I. Wickmann. 17. Freud’s Theories of the Neuroses. $2.00. Dr. E. Hitschmann. 18. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero. $1.00. Dr. Otto Rank 19. The Theory of Psychoanalysis. $1.50. Dr. C. G. Jung. Copyright, 1915, by THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK PRESS OF THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY LANCASTER, PA. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I CONSIDERATION OF EARLY HYPOTHESES 4 CHAPTER II THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY 17 CHAPTER III THE CONCEPTION OF LIBIDO 27 CHAPTER IV THE ETIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY 45 CHAPTER V THE UNCONSCIOUS 55 CHAPTER VI THE DREAM 60 CHAPTER VII THE CONTENT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 67 CHAPTER VIII THE ETIOLOGY OF THE NEUROSES 72 CHAPTER IX THE THERAPEUTICAL PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 96 CHAPTER X SOME GENERAL REMARKS ON PSYCHOANALYSIS 111 INTRODUCTION