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By
Professor Dr. SIGMUND FREUD, LL.D.
AUTHORIZED ENGLISH EDITION, WITH
INTRODUCTION BY
A. A. BRILL, Ph.B., M.D.
Chief of Clinic of Psychiatry Columbia University; Chief of the
Neurological Department, Bronx Hospital and Dispensary;
former Assistant Physician in the Central Islip State
Hospital, and in the Clinic of Psychiatry, Zurich
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1914
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Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysiswhile studying the so-called border-linecases of mental diseases, such as hysteriaand compulsion neurosis. By discarding the oldmethods of treatment and strictly applying himselfto a study of the patient’s life he discoveredthat the hitherto puzzling symptoms had a definitemeaning, and that there was nothing arbitraryin any morbid manifestation. Psychoanalysisalways showed that they referred to some definiteproblem or conflict of the person concerned. Itwas while tracing back the abnormal to thenormal state that Professor Freud found howfaint the line of demarcation was between thenormal and neurotic person, and that the psychopathologicmechanisms so glaringly observed inthe psychoneuroses and psychoses could usuallybe demonstrated in a lesser degree in normalpersons. This led to a study of the faultyactions of everyday life and later to the publicationof the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, abook which passed through four editions inGermany and is considered the author’s mostpopular work. With great ingenuity and penetration[Pg vi]the author throws much light on thecomplex problems of human behaviour, andclearly demonstrates that the hitherto consideredimpassable gap between normal and abnormalmental states is more apparent than real.
This translation is made of the fourth Germanedition, and while the original text was strictlyfollowed, linguistic difficulties often made itnecessary to modify or substitute some of theauthor’s cases by examples comprehensible to theEnglish-speaking reader.
A. A. BRILL.
New York.
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| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction | v | |
| I. | Forgetting of Proper Names | 3 |
| II. | Forgetting of Foreign Words | 17 |
| III. | Forgetting of Names and Order of Words | 29 |
| IV. | Childhood and Concealing Memories | 57 |
| V. |