The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
Henri F. Ellenberger
Language: English
Pages: 976
ISBN: 0465016731
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. Jules Claretie, L'Obsession-Moi et /'autre ( Pari s : Lafitte, 1 908 ) . 1 5 8 . Ch arles Epheyre , "Soeur M arthe," Revue des D eux Mondes, XCIII ( 1 88 9 ) , 3 84-43 1 . 1 59 . Leon Hennique, Minnie Brandon ( Paris : Fasquel le, 1 899 ) . 1 60 . William M i ntorn, Le Somnam bule ( Pari s : Ohio, 1 8 8 0 ) . 1 6 1 . Paul Lindau, Der A ndere ( New York : I. Goldmann, 1 8 9 3 ) . French adaptation, Le Procureur Hailers, i n Petite Illustration, No. 46 ( Paris, January 1 9 1 4 ) . 1 62 . Robert
aura A da m s A rm e r . T h e Reverend Oska r Pfister gave a n illustrated account of that cure in th e journal Imago and added a psychoanalytic commentary. 6 0 The patient. a man of about fi fty. dreamed that h e saw his children dead . Th is upset him so th a t he fe l l i n to a severe depression . A star gazer was consulted a few wee k s later. He worked h i mself i n to a trance . looked at the stars, and saw a bear; he then told the patient. ' " Search for the chanter who can s i ng the
34 THE DISCOVERY OF THE U N C O N S C I O US in terpre ta tion to unveil the advice i t contained ; the patient simply dreamed , and there u pon the disease disappeare d ! This is obviously a k i nd of psychotherapy that has no equivalent in our time and that deserves more attention . I n a study of these phenomena, the J u ngian analyst C. A . Meier mentions tha t a sim ilar con cept was expressed by Kieser. a pupil of Mesmer: "Where the inner fee ling of the disease becomes personified
against him; another. by Zimmermann. 3 is better documented bu t is biased in his fa vor; both are ba sed mainly on contemporary pam phlets. not on arch i v e mater i a l . Gassner was born in B raz, a village of indigent peasants in Vora rlberg. a mountainous province of western Aus tria. He was ordai ned i n to the priesthood in 1 7 50. and beginning in 1 75 8 carried out his mi nistry in Klosterle. a small village in eastern Swi tzerl and. A few years later. according to Zim mermann . he
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