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Transference is the central problem of analysis--It may be
positive or negative--Projection of infantile phantasies on the
doctor--Biological "duties"--The psyche does not only react, but
gives its individual reply--We have an actual sexual problem
to-day--Evidences thereof--We have no real sexual morality, only
a legal attitude--Our moral views are too undifferentiated--The
neurotic is ill not because he has lost his faith in morality, but
because he has not found the new authority in himself.

CHAPTER X

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 278

Content of the unconscious--Defined as sum of all psychical
processes below the threshold of consciousness--Answer to question
how does the unconscious behave in neurosis found in its effect
on normal consciousness--Example of a merchant--Compensating
function of the unconscious--Symptomatic acts--Nebuchadnezzar's
dream discussed--Intuitive ideas, and insane manifestations
both emanate from the unconscious--Eccentricities pre-exist
a breakdown--In mental disorder unconscious processes
break-through into consciousness and disturb equilibrium--True
also in fanaticism--Pathological compensation in case of
paranoia--Unconscious processes have to struggle against
resistances in the conscious mind--Distortion--In morbid conditions
the function of the unconscious is one of compensation.

CHAPTER XI

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES 287

Striking contrast between hysteria and dementia
præcox--Extroversion and Introversion--Repression--Hysterical
transference and repression the mechanism of
extroversion--Depreciation of the external world the mechanism
of introversion--The nervous temperament pre-exists the
illness--Examples of the two types from literature--James's Tough
and Tender-minded--Warringer's Sympathy and Abstraction--Schiller's
Naïf and Sentimental--Nietzsche's Apollien and Dionysian--Gross's
Weakness and Reinforcement of Consecutive Function--Freud and
Adler's Causalism and Finality--The fundamental need for further
study of the two types.

CHAPTER XII

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DREAMS 299

Psychic structure of dream contrasted with that of conscious
thought--Why a dream seems meaningless--Freud's empirical
evidence--Technique, analysis of a dream--The causal and
teleological view of the dream--A typical dream with mythological
content--Compensating function of dreams--Phallic symbols.

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