The Theory of PsychoanalysisJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
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The Theory of Psychoanalysis
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Neuroses; Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Pathological; Sex
The former affectionate relations with her parents changed
also. Instead of her earlier childlike affection, she betrayed a
lamentable state of mind, which increased sometimes to pronounced
irritability; weeks of depression ensued. Whilst the younger sister
celebrated her wedding, the elder went to a distant health-resort for a
nervous intestinal trouble. I shall not continue the history of the
disease; it ended in an ordinary hysteria.
In analyzing this case, great resistance to the sexual problem was
found. The resistance depended on many perverse phantasies, the
existence of which would not be admitted by the patient. The question,
whence arose such perverse phantasies, so unexpected in a young girl,
brought us to the discovery that once as a child, eight years old, she
had found herself suddenly confronted in the street by an exhibitionist.
She was rooted to the spot by fright, and even much later ugly images
persecuted her in her dreams. Her younger sister was with her at the
time. The night after the patient told me this, she dreamed of a man in
a gray suit, who seemed about to do in front of her what the
exhibitionist had done. She awoke with a cry of terror. The first
association to the gray suit was a suit of her father’s, which he had
been wearing on an excursion which she made with him when she was about
six years old. This dream connects the father, without any doubt, with
the exhibitionist. This must be done for some reason. Did something
happen with the father, which could possibly call forth this
association? This problem met with great resistance from the patient.
But she could not get rid of it. At the next sitting she reproduced some
early reminiscences, when she had noticed her father undressing himself.
Again, she came one day excited and terribly shaken, and told me that
she had had an abominable vision, absolutely distinct. In bed at night,
she felt herself again a child of two or three years old, and she saw
her father standing by her bed in an obscene attitude. The story was
gasped out piece by piece, obviously with the greatest internal
struggle. This was followed by violent reproaches, of how dreadful it is
that a father should ever behave to his child in such a terrible manner.
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