Chapter XIII: The Content of the Psychoses 312

Discussion of psychological _v._ physical origin of
mental disease--Mediæval conception of madness as work of evil
spirits--Development of materialistic idea that diseases of
the mind are diseases of the brain--Psychiatrists have come to
regard function as accessory to the organ--Analysis of patients
entering Burgholzi Asylum--A quarter only show lesions of the
brain--The psychiatry of the future must advance by way of
psychology--Cases of dementia præcox illustrating recent methods
in psychiatry--The development of the outbreak at a moment of
great emotion--Delusions determined by deficiencies in the
patient's personality--Difficulties of investigation--Temporary
remission of mental symptoms proves that reason survives in
spite of preoccupation with diseased thoughts--Case of dementia
præcox, showing exceeding richness of phantasy formations, and the
continuity of ideas.

PART II. 336

Freud's case of paranoid dementia--(Schreber case)--Two ways
of regarding Goethe's "Faust"--Retrospective and prospective
understanding--The scientific mind thinks causally--This is
but one half of comprehension--Pathological and mythological
formations, both structures of the imagination--Flournoy's
case--Misunderstanding of author's analysis of it--Adaptations
only possible to the introverted type by means of a
world-philosophy--The extroverted type always arrives at a
general theory subsequently--Psychasthenia is the neurosis of
introversion, hysteria of extroversion--These diseases typify the
general attitude of the types to the phenomena of the external
world--The extreme difference in type a great obstacle to common
understanding--The general result of the constructive method is a
subjective view, not a scientific theory.

CHAPTER XIV