The name Freund at page 8, which is likely to be a reference to Freud, has been corrected accordingly.
The erroneous Roman number vli in footnote 15 is corrected to be vii just as a guess.
THE INTERNATIONAL
PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL
LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST JONES
NO. 2
THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL LIBRARY
NO. 2
PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
AND THE
WAR NEUROSES
by
Drs. S. FERENCZI (Budapest), KARL ABRAHAM (Berlin),
ERNST SIMMEL (Berlin) and ERNEST JONES (London)
Introduction by
Prof. SIGM. FREUD (Vienna)
| THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL PRESS | ||
| LONDON | VIENNA | NEW YORK |
| 1921 | ||
Copyright, 1921
C. Fromme, Printer, Vienna
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | Introduction by Prof. Sigm. Freud | 1 |
| II. | Symposium held at the Fifth International Psycho-AnalyticalCongress at Budapest, September 1918: | |
| 1. Dr. S. Ferenczi | 5 | |
| 2. Dr. Karl Abraham | 22 | |
| 3. Dr. Ernst Simmel | 30 | |
| III. | War Shock and Freud’s Theory of the Neuroses, by Dr.Ernest Jones | 44 |
I.
INTRODUCTION
By Professor Sigm. Freud, Vienna.
This little book on the War Neuroses, with which the Verlag opensthe “Internationale psychoanalytische Bibliothek”, deals with a subjectwhich until lately engaged the greatest current interest. When the subjectcame up for discussion at the Fifth Psycho-Analytical Congress atBudapest (September, 1918), official representatives of the Central EuropeanPowers were present to obtain information from the lectures anddiscussions. The hopeful result of this first meeting was the promise thatpsycho-analytical institutions should be established, where medical menqualified in analysis might find the means and time to study the nature ofthese puzzling illnesses and the therapeutic value of psycho-analysisin them. However, before these results could be achieved the warcame to an end, the government organisations broke down, and interestin war neuroses gave place to other concerns. At the same time,significantly enough, most of the neurotic diseases which had beenbrought about by the war disappeared on the cessation of the warconditions. The opportunity, therefore, for a thorough investigationof these affections was unfortunately missed. However, one must add,it