The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry

The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry

Henri F. Ellenberger

Language: English

Pages: 976

ISBN: 0465016731

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man’s search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind. In an account that is both exhaustive and exciting, the distinguished psychiatrist and author demonstrates the long chain of development—through the exorcists, magnetists, and hypnotists—that led to the fruition of dynamic psychiatry in the psychological systems of Janet, Freud, Adler, and Jung.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

. 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

in Europe and A merica, with a Letter on the Moral Character of Trance Su bjects and a Defense of Dr. Charcot ( New York : 1 8 8 2 ) . 1 60. G . Hahn, "Charcot et son influence sur !'opinion publique," R evue des Questions Scientifi ques, 2nd series, VI ( 1 894 ) , 2 3 0-26 1 , 3 5 3-359. C. Fere, cf. n. 1 55 . 1 6 1 . Pierre Janet, "J. M . Charcot, s o n oeuvre psychologique," R e v u e Ph i losophiq u e, XXXIX ( 1 89 5 ) , 5 69-604 . 1 62 . A. Baudouin, "Quelques souvenirs de Ia Salpetriere,"

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