Therapy and Technique [antikvár]

Introduction 7 Freud never wrote a systematic treatise on his therapeutic I techniques. The papers collected here represent the best writing he did on the subject. As with almost every other conceivable general category of Freud's thought, remarks on therapy [ and technique are scattered throughout his writings, and it is quite impossible to claim that this selection is exhaustive. The i reader will find that Part IV of Studies on Hysteria, the second chapter of The Interpretation of Dreams, lectures 27 and 28 of Freud's Introductory Lectures, chapter two of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, chapter five of The Question of Lay Analysis, lecture 34 of the New Introductory Lectures, and chapter six of the posthumously published An Outline of Psychoanalysis contain further important materials on the theory of therapy. As in other volumes, so far as other criteria of organization permit, I have arranged this material on therapeutic technique in chronological order. Freud never examined, in any serious or sustained way, the cultural conditions within which his therapy would have to operate. Yet those conditions may have so altered that the very objects of analytic address—the psychoneuroses—^have changed beyond Freudian recognition. Patently, except for cases reported from among the culturally unassimilated, fullblown hysterias are hard to come by nowadays in the psy- 7