The Psychoanalytic Years [antikvár]

EDITORIAL NOTEFor some half-dozen years, Jung was to be counted as Freud's leading disciple and, indeed, as the leading psychoanalyst after Freud. The present selection contains the more significant of Jung's shorter writings of that time which demonstrate his position as a Freudian. Before Jung had met Freud, in 1907, he had earned a name in European psychiatry as the leader of experiments with the word-association tests at the Burghölzli Mental Hospital in Zurich. In one of his studies he vised psychoanalysis as a method of treatment as well as using psychoanalytic principles in evaluating the test data: "Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments" (igo6), which was Jung's first essay on the subject. While the success of this rather experimental demonstration of psychoanalysis may be questioned, Jung's enthusiastic and pioneer use of the technique and his sympathetic concern for the case (of a governess of 37 with a sexual complex) make a decided impression today. Another "pre-Freudian" paper, also from igo6, was a defçnseprofessionally courageous for the timeof Freud's theory of hysteria in reply to criticism by a prominent German neurologist at an international congress. Another paper on the same subject was a report to another congress, in igo8. In 1909, together with Freud and Bleuler, Jung founded the Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psycho-pathologische Forschungen, of which he was editor and a frequent contributor. In 1910, he was elected first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association (serving until 1914, nearly two years after his break with Freud). Tavo of his best known early papers were printed in the yearbook: "The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual" (igog), which Jung revised in 1948 in order to make its psychoanalytic observations less emphatic (the present version is edited to show both the 1909 and 1948 texts); and "Psychic Conflicts in a Child," given as a lecture at Clark University (Worcester,