Chapter VII: Psychoanalysis 206

Doctors know too little of psychology, and psychologists
of medicine--Strong prejudice aroused by Freud's conception of
the importance of the sexual moment--The commoner prejudices
discussed--Psychoanalysis not a method of suggestion or
reasoning--The unconscious content is reached _via_ the
conscious--Case of neurotic man with ergophobia for professional
work--Case of neurotic woman who wants another child--Resistances
against the analyst--Dream analysis the efficacious instrument
of analysis--The scientist's fear of superstition--The genesis
of dreams--Dream material is collected according to scientific
method--The rite of baptism analysed--When the unconscious
material fails, use the conscious--The physician's own complexes a
hindrance--Interpretations of Viennese School too one-sided--Sexual
phantasies both realistic and symbolic--The dream the subliminal
picture of the individual's present psychology--Symbolism a process
of comprehension by analogy--Analysis helps the neurotic to
exchange his unconscious conflict for the real conflict of life.

CHAPTER VIII

ON PSYCHOANALYSIS 226

Difficulties of public discussion--Competence to form an
opinion presupposes a knowledge of the fundamental literature--The
abandoned trauma theory--Fixation--The importance of the infantile
past--Analysis discloses existence of innumerable unconscious
phantasies--Œdipus complex--Fixation discussed--The critical
moment for the outbreak of the neurosis--Predisposition--Author's
energic view point--Application of the libido to the
obstacle--Repression--Neurosis an act of adaptation that
has failed--The energic view does not alter the technique of
analysis--Analysis re-establishes the connection between the
conscious and unconscious--Is a constructive task of great
importance.

CHAPTER IX

ON SOME CRUCIAL POINTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS 236