Sigmund Freud: Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis
Freud wrote:
In the well-known phenomena of so-called post hypnotic suggestion, in which a command given in hypnosis is later executed in the normal state as though by an imperative suggestion, we have an excellent basis for understanding how the unconscious state can influence the conscious, although the latter is ignorant of the existence of the former.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 5
Freud wrote:
Where a symptom arises, we also find an amnesia, a memory gap, and the filling of this gap includes the removal of the conditions under which the symptom originated.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 5
Freud wrote:
You have probably also felt, and rightly, that Breuer’s investigations gave you only a very incomplete theory and insufficient explanation of the phenomena which we have observed. But complete theories do not fall from Heaven, and you would have had still greater reason to be distrustful, had any one offered you at the beginning of his observations a well-rounded theory, without any gaps; such a theory could only be the child of his speculations and not the fruit of an unprejudiced investigation of the facts.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 5
Freud wrote:
Janet’s hysterical reminds one of a weak woman who has been shopping and is now on her way home, laden with packages and bundles of every description. She cannot manage the whole lot her two arms and her ten fingers, and soon she drops one When she stoops to pick this up, another breaks loose, and so it goes on.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 6
Freud wrote:
I substantiated the fact that the forgotten memories were not lost. They were in the possession of the patient, ready to emerge and form association with his other mental content, but hindered from becoming conscious and forced to remain in the unconscious by some sort of a force. The existence of this force could be assumed with certainty, for in attempting to drag up the unconscious memories into the consciousness of the patient, in opposition to this force, one got the sensation of his own personal effort striving to overcome it. One could get an idea of this force, which maintained the pathological situation, from the resistance of the patient.
It is on this idea of resistance that I based my theory of the psychic processes of hystericals. It had been found that in order to cure the patient it was necessary that this force should be overcome.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 7
Freud wrote:
I pressed my patients to tell me what came into their minds that had to do with the problem we were working on; I told them that they would remember what they had apparently forgotten and that the thought which irrupted into consciousness would surely embody the memory for which we were seeking.
… In fact, it would only happen the first time that the right forgotten material would emerge through simple pressure on my part. If the experience was continued, ideas emerged in every case, which could not be the right ones, for they were not to the purpose, and the patients themselves rejected them as incorrect.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 9
Freud wrote:
If I were asked how one could become a psycho-analyst, I should answer through the study of his own dreams.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 11
Freud wrote:
The young child always dreams of the fulfilment of wishes which were aroused in him the day before and were not satisfied. You need not art of interpretation to discover this simple solution, you only need to inquire into the experiences of the child on the day before.
…dreams of adults, too were the same as those of children
…This is actually the fact
… dreams of adults generally have an incomprehensible content…
…these dreams have undergone a process of disguise.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 11
Freud wrote:
The dreamer, then, knows just as little the sense of his dream as the hysterical knows…
…You must abstract entirely…the elements…in the dream…through free association…We call this process dream work.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 12
Freud wrote:
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg
VOCABULARY:
Superfluous, pg. 5
Unnecessary, useless, more than needed
Banal (not found), pg. 6
Bandy – to exchange, content, agitate
Bane- ruin, ruinous
Banish – expel
Cathartic, pg. 6
Purgative, from the chair, assertion, presumption, rule, license, school
Freud wrote:
In the well-known phenomena of so-called post hypnotic suggestion, in which a command given in hypnosis is later executed in the normal state as though by an imperative suggestion, we have an excellent basis for understanding how the unconscious state can influence the conscious, although the latter is ignorant of the existence of the former.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 5
Freud wrote:
Where a symptom arises, we also find an amnesia, a memory gap, and the filling of this gap includes the removal of the conditions under which the symptom originated.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 5
Freud wrote:
You have probably also felt, and rightly, that Breuer’s investigations gave you only a very incomplete theory and insufficient explanation of the phenomena which we have observed. But complete theories do not fall from Heaven, and you would have had still greater reason to be distrustful, had any one offered you at the beginning of his observations a well-rounded theory, without any gaps; such a theory could only be the child of his speculations and not the fruit of an unprejudiced investigation of the facts.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 5
Freud wrote:
Janet’s hysterical reminds one of a weak woman who has been shopping and is now on her way home, laden with packages and bundles of every description. She cannot manage the whole lot her two arms and her ten fingers, and soon she drops one When she stoops to pick this up, another breaks loose, and so it goes on.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 6
Freud wrote:
I substantiated the fact that the forgotten memories were not lost. They were in the possession of the patient, ready to emerge and form association with his other mental content, but hindered from becoming conscious and forced to remain in the unconscious by some sort of a force. The existence of this force could be assumed with certainty, for in attempting to drag up the unconscious memories into the consciousness of the patient, in opposition to this force, one got the sensation of his own personal effort striving to overcome it. One could get an idea of this force, which maintained the pathological situation, from the resistance of the patient.
It is on this idea of resistance that I based my theory of the psychic processes of hystericals. It had been found that in order to cure the patient it was necessary that this force should be overcome.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 7
Freud wrote:
I pressed my patients to tell me what came into their minds that had to do with the problem we were working on; I told them that they would remember what they had apparently forgotten and that the thought which irrupted into consciousness would surely embody the memory for which we were seeking.
… In fact, it would only happen the first time that the right forgotten material would emerge through simple pressure on my part. If the experience was continued, ideas emerged in every case, which could not be the right ones, for they were not to the purpose, and the patients themselves rejected them as incorrect.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 9
Freud wrote:
If I were asked how one could become a psycho-analyst, I should answer through the study of his own dreams.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 11
Freud wrote:
The young child always dreams of the fulfilment of wishes which were aroused in him the day before and were not satisfied. You need not art of interpretation to discover this simple solution, you only need to inquire into the experiences of the child on the day before.
…dreams of adults, too were the same as those of children
…This is actually the fact
… dreams of adults generally have an incomprehensible content…
…these dreams have undergone a process of disguise.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 11
Freud wrote:
The dreamer, then, knows just as little the sense of his dream as the hysterical knows…
…You must abstract entirely…the elements…in the dream…through free association…We call this process dream work.
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg. 12
Freud wrote:
Sigmund Freud, Origin & Development of Psycho-Analysis, pg
VOCABULARY:
Superfluous, pg. 5
Unnecessary, useless, more than needed
Banal (not found), pg. 6
Bandy – to exchange, content, agitate
Bane- ruin, ruinous
Banish – expel
Cathartic, pg. 6
Purgative, from the chair, assertion, presumption, rule, license, school
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