Author: Constance E. Long

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9781330579336

Excerpt from Collected Papers on the Psychology of Phantasy I have often been asked to publish the following papers in book form. I have at length done so, chiefly because they deal with points that are matters of constant inquiry. In a collection of papers of this sort there is inevitably a good deal of repetition. I regret this, but it is always open to readers to skip passages, whereas those who are unfamiliar with the terms of analytical psychology will find the repetition not without value. It will easily be seen by those to whom it is not already known, that I am an adherent of Jung's school of analytical psychology, but I hare never concealed my great admiration of Freud's work, nor minimized the debt we owe to him for his opportune discovery of dream analysis, and for the formulation of his illuminating theories of neurosis. The adherents of the Swiss School use Freud's technique of dream analysis, and do not repudiate any of his discovered facts, but they repudiate the claim of some of his disciples that he and his school are in possession of the whole truth. They are unable to believe that his interpretation of the facts is always as unimpeachable as the facts themselves. The great value of dream analysis, and the real importance of the discovery, are attested by the fact that the results can be applied in many very different fields of work. The method has approved itself whenever investigators have had sufficient knowledge and skill to do justice to it. Tho Freudians are anxious that the term psycho-analysis should be reserved for their special school. As a practical matter it is almost impossible completely to disentangle psycho-analysis from analytical psychology, because having sprung from a common root they are closely bound together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.