The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis: First and Second Lectures  

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Freud, Sigmund

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The American Journal of Psychology vol. 100 no. 3-4 (1987), page 472.
Topik: Sigmund Freud; Psychology
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If one had to pick a single article from the American Journal of Psychology that was at the same time one of the most influential and most out of character for the Journal it would have to be Freud's five lectures on psychoanalysis. Freud was invited in 1909 by G. Stanley Hall to give a series of lectures to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Clark University. The lectures were the first introduction of American psychologists to Freud and his psychoanalytic theory. Even more than that, their publication in the American Journal of Psychology was also in many cases the way in which European psychologists first read a publication by Freud. The five lectures, of which we reprint the first two, are also perhaps Freud's most lucid introduction to the history and early concepts of his theory of psychoanalysis. Here we have Freud's version of Joseph Breuer's treatment of Anna O and her joking reference to Breuer's method of catharsis as "the talking cure." He describes his adaptation of Breuer's method to other hysterics. In the second lecture he tells us of the influence of Charcot on his thinking. It is in this lecture that Freud talks about the effect of repression and gives his classic representation of the conversion reaction using his own audience and lecture room in his metaphor. The other three lectures introduce many of the basic concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis. Freud delivered his lectures extemporaneously and put them into written form only after his return to Vienna. The correspondence between the written and spoken versions is apparently very close, however. Freud's German was rendered into English by Harry W. Chase, one of G. Stanley Hall's students at Clark. Freud revised the English version before it appeared. The lectures also appeared some years later as Five Lectures on Psycho-analysis under the hand of another translator.

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