Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology
Language: English
Pages: 290
ISBN: 1519641249
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Change The Way You Eat: The psychology of food
The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool
Self and Identity: Personal, Social, and Symbolic
Somnambulism must be conceived Hypnotism," 1901, p. 289). PSYCHOLOGY OF OCCULT PHENOMENA 9 he suddenly travelled from Australia to Zurich, where he lived for some weeks in careless cheerfulness, and only came to himself when he read in the paper of his sudden disappearance from Australia. He had a total and retrograde amnesia for the several months which included the journey to Australia, his sojourn there Azam l and the return journey. has published a case of periodic amnesia. Albert
abnormally long and deep sleep it is said without prodromal " De 1'automatisme de la memoire et du souvenir dans le 1 Mesnet, somnambulisme pathologique." Union medicale, Juillet, 1874. Of. Binet, " "Les Alterations de la personnalite," p. 37. Cf. also Mesnet, Somnambu- N lisme spontanS dans ses rapports avec 1'hysterie," Arch, de Neurol., 3 Arch, de Neur., Mai, 1891. " Les " Cf. Binet, Alterations," Philosophy of Sleep," 1830. r . 69, 1892. etc. PSYCHOLOGY OF OCCULT PHENOMENA 11
consciousness that its continuity could be entirely lost ; from the sphere of conscious memory. We have, however, a criterion by which we can always recognise objectively The cryptomnesic presentation intra-psychic cryptomnesia. is linked to the ego-complex by the minimum of associations. The reason for this lies in the relation of the individual to the particular object, in the disproportion of interest to Cryptomnesia must not be regarded as synonymous with Hypermnesia ; by the latter
of false reproductions, seldom more than 19-20 per cent., while in abnormal persons, especially in hysterics, we often find from 20-40 per cent, of false reproductions. The reproduction certainty is therefore in certain cases a measure for the emotivity of the test-person. By far the larger number of neurotics show a pronounced tendency to cover up their intimate affairs in impenetrable darkness, even from the doctor, so that he finds it very difficult form a proper picture of the patient's
psychology of a four-year-old child to that of the youth approaching puberty will at first sight seem paradoxical, the relationship lies, however, not in the age but rather in the elegiac reveries express the fact that a part The mechanism. which formerly belonged, and should belong, to a now introverted, that is, it is turned inward into the subject and there produces an increased imaginative of that love real object, is What activity. the origin of this introversion is ? Is it