On the origin of the "influencing machine" in schizophrenia.

by Victor Tausk. The paper appeared in print in l9l9just about the time of Tausk’s tragic suicide, although an earlier version had been presented the year before to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Group. In many ways this is an odd paper. It reflects Tausk’s great brilliance and at the same time conveys, through its careful and scrupulously documented footnotes, Tausk’s preoccupation with the influence between him and Freud concerning the psychoanalytic view of schizophrenia. Tausk draws heavily on Freud’s work at the time; however, he advances the psychoanalytic formulation ofthe central difficulty of schizophre-