The psycho-analytic study of the family / by J.C. Flügel.

  • John Flügel
Date:
1921
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    CHAPTER П THE PRIMITIVE EMOTIONS IN RELATION TO THE FAMILY Psycho-ana- The progress that has recently been made in our under- ' ^tud ^of the importance and nature of the psychological Unconscious problems connected with family life is to a very considerable extent due to the work of a single school of psychologists— the so-called psycho-analytic school, which owes its origin to Prof. Sigmund Freud of Vienna. The success that has attended the efforts of this school has arisen principally from the fact that the psycho-analysts have not confined their researches to the conscious contents of the mind directly discoverable by introspection, but have sought also to investigate the subconscious or unconscious factors which enter into human conduct and mentation^. 1 I make no attempt here to give a systematic account of the general nature of the methods, discoveries and hypotheses of the psycho-analytic school, except in so far as they directly touch our present problem. Some at least of the general principles underlying the work of the school together with some of the results they have achieved are now becoming fairly well known. Those who would pursue the subject further may be referred to the following books: Brill, Psychanalysis, 2nd. ed. 1914; Ernest Jones, Papers on Psycho-Analysis, 2nd. ed. 1918; Pfister, The Psycho¬ analytic Method, 1917; White, Mechanisms of Character Formation, 1916; Barbara Low, Psycho-Analysis, 1920. A more detailed study would include reference to Prof. Freud's own works, of which the principal are :— Selected Papers on Hysteria, 1909; Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, 1910; The Interpretation of Dreams, 1913; The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, 1914; Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious, 1916; Totem and Taboo, 1918; Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psycho¬ analyse, 1918; also four volumes of the Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre, published at various times, and two volumes in the series 6