Chapter II: The Association Method 94

LECTURE I.--Formula for test--Disturbances of reaction
as complex-indicators--Discovery of a culprit by means of
test--Disturbances of reaction show emotional rather than
intellectual causes--Principal types--Value of the experiment in
dealing with neurotics.

LECTURE II.--FAMILIAR CONSTELLATIONS 119

Dr. Fürst's researches--Effect of environment and education
on reactions--Effect of parental discord on children--Unconscious
tendency to repetition of parental mistakes--Case of pathological
association-concordance between mother and daughter--Neurosis, a
counter-argument against the personality with which the patient is
most nearly concerned--How to free the individual from unconscious
attachments to the milieu.

LECTURE III.--EXPERIENCES CONCERNING THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF
THE CHILD 132

Importance of emotional processes in children--Little Anna's
questions--Arrival of the baby brother--Anna's embarrassment and
hostility--Introversion of the child--Of the adolescent--Her
pathological interest in the Messina earthquake--The meaning of
her fear--Anna's theories of birth--Meaning of her questions--Her
father tells her something of origin of her little brother--Her
fears now subside--The unconscious meaning of the child's wish to
sit up late--Anna's equivalent to the "lumpf-theory" of little
Hans--The stork-theory again--Author's remarks on the sexual
enlightenment of the child.

CHAPTER III

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FATHER IN THE DESTINY OF THE
INDIVIDUAL 156

Psychosexual relationship of child to father--Fürst's
experiments quoted--The association experiment typical for
man's psychological life--Adaptation to father--Father-complex
productive of neurosis--Father-complex in man with masochistic and
homosexual trends--Peasant woman "her father's favourite," tragic
effect of the unconscious constellation--Case of eight-year-old
boy with enuresis--Enuresis a sexual surrogate--Importance of
infantile sexuality in life--Hence necessity for psychoanalytic
investigation--The Jewish religion and the father-complex--Parental
power guides the child like a higher controlling fate--The conflict
for the development of the individual--Father-complex in Book of
Tobias.