Dreams and Myths; A Study in Race Psychology Volume 15

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... DREAMS AND MYTHS.* Object And Viewpoint Of Psychoanalytic Investigations According To Freud The psychological theories that are associated with the name of S. Freud reach out into regions of the psychic life of man, which, from outer appearances, have no relation to one another. Freud in common with J. Breuer in their " Studien fiber Hysterie" (1895) started out from pathological psychic manifestations. The progressive elaboration of the psychoanalytic method required a searching study of dreams.1 It appeared also that for a full understanding of these phenomena the comparative consideration of certain other phenomena must be taken up. Freud saw this and drew wider and wider areas of the normal and diseased psychic life into the field of his investigations. So there appeared in the Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre (1906) an assortment of studies of hysteria, compulsive ideas, and other psychic disturbances, later the monographs "tJber den Witz" (1905), the "Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie "2 (1905), and lately the psychological analysis of a poet's works,2" which constitutes the first volume of this series. Freud came to consider these apparently heterogeneous products of man's psyche from a common viewpoint. They all have in common the relation to the unconscious, to the psychic life of childhood, and to the sexuality; they have in common the tendency to represent a wish of the indi * Traum und Mythus. Eine Studie zur Volkerpsychologie. Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde. Leipzig und Wien. Franz Deuticke 1909. '"Die Traumdeutung." Wien und Leipzig, 1900 (2 Aufl. 1900). 'An English translation of this work by Dr. A. A. Brill is No. 7 of this Series. "* " Der Wahn und die Traume in W. Jensens' 'Gradiva.'" Wien und Leipzig, ...