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Dreams and Myths: A Study in Race Psychology (Classic Reprint)
Dreams and Myths A Study in Race Psychology - Classic Reprint Author:Karl Abraham DREAMS AND MYTHS.* I Object and Viewpoint of Psychoanalytic Investigations According to Freud The psychological theories that are associated with the name of S. Freud reach out into regions of the psychic life of man, which, from outer appearances, have no relation to one another. Freud in common with J. Breuer in their "Studien iiber Hysterie" ... more »(1895) started out from pathological psychic manifestations. The progressive elaboration of the psychoanalytic method required a searching study of dreams.1 It appeared also that for a full understanding of these phenomena the comparative consideration of certain other phenomena must be taken up. Freud saw this and drew wider and wider areas of the normal and diseased psychic life into the field of his investigations. So there appeared in the Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre (1906) an assortment of studies of hysteria, compulsive ideas, and other psychic disturbances, later the monographs "t)ber den Witz" (1905), the "Abhandl
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CONTENTS; I Object and Viewpoint of Psychoanalytic Investigations According to Freud i; II Childhood Phantasies in Dreams and Myths Application of the Wish Theory to Myths 4; III Symbolism in Speech, in Dreams and Other Phantasies 12; IV Analysis of the Prometheus Saga 27; V Infantilism in Individual and Folk Psychology, Wish-fulfillment in Dream and Myth 32; VI The Effect of the Censor in Dreams and Myths The; Work of Condensation 43; VII Displacement and Secondary Elaboration in Dreams; and Myths 46; VIII The Effect of Displacement in the Sagas of Prometheus, Moses, and Samson 49; IX The Means of Representation of the Myth 55; X Wish-fulfillment in the Prometheus Saga 58; XI Analysis of the Myth of the Origin of Nectar 63; XII The Wish Theory of the Myth 69; XIII The Determining Forces in the Psychic Life of the; Individual and the Race 73; v