Papers on Psycho-Analysis

Papers on Psycho-Analysis

slow-moving picture of the development of psychoanalysis'. The present volume has twelve new essays added to it while twenty older ones have been taken out to make room for them. Of the new additions, Dr. Jones' paper on 'jealousy' is one of the most striking. Besides an unusually good index, the book contains a copious glossary. It is to be hoped that this new edition will stimulate Indians in...

Papers on Psycho-Analysis

Mental processes are always accompanied by a varying amount of energy, i.e., are dynamic in nature. Excessive accumulation results in tension and discomfort. Discharge results in relief and pleasure. The process of repression plays an important part in his system. The term is applied to the conditions preventing mental processes entering consciousness. The ensuing mental conflict is responsible...

The Case against Psycho-Analysis

There is a strong case to be made out against psycho-analysis, but Salter fails to make it. Even when he does present convincing instances of the contradictions within the theory, he spoils his case by his uncritical thinking and his sweeping condemnations. For example, he boldly and rashly rejects outright such concepts as projection and sublimation as being utterly useless. It would be more a...

Freud: Dictionary of Psycho-Analysis

New Directions in Psycho-Analysis

Contemporary psycho-analysis owes a very great deal to the ideas formulated by Mrs. Klein. To mark the occasion of her seventieth birthday, the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis published a special edition containing a collection of essays written by her colleagues and pupils and dedicated to her. This collection, published in 1952, revised, augmented by several new essays including two ...