The 3 types of the unconscious

 1. Freud
 Personal unconscious  supressed content
(symptoms)
 2. Jung
 Collective unconscious  heritage of the
humanity (symbols)
 3. Szondi
 Familial unconscious  heritage of the
family (choices)
 Familial unconscious

 drives are inherited through the

recessive mendelian inheritance
process
 The goal of the drives to manifestate on
the surface  homozygous successors
 People will be attracted by others with
similar genetic background 
genotropism
 The paradigm of genotropism
Analysis of Marriages (Szondi, 1937)
 Genotropism: the identical or related
hereditary factors – that are within the
familial unconscious of two individuals –
attract and hold these two persons together.

 The act of the choice is conscious but the

hidden dirigible factors are unconscious
(these are the familial predispositions
/genes/which are unconscious part of the
psyche).
The main choices in our lives
 Choice of a partner
 „ a friend
 „ an occupation
 „ an illness
 „ death
 VI. The Highest Tribunal
The Spirit

V. The Ego

IV. The Mental III. The Social

Environment FATE Environment

II. The Drive

Nature

I. Heredity
 Factors which determine the fate of
the individual:
A. Compulsive Fate
 Heredity
 Drive Nature
 Social Environment
 Mental Environment
B. Selective Fate
 The Ego (makes decisions)
 The supreme tribunal: the Spirit
The Pontifex Ego

 New concept of ego: it is the force or entity

which bridges all the antitheses (“Pontifex
oppositorum” of human existence)
 Pontifical ego is the power distributor, the
administrator and organizer of all the
inherent psychosomatic energies.
 Pontifex ego
 The Pontifex ego has the strenght to
change the compulsive fate into a selective
fate .
 The functions of the Pontifex ego:
 1. integration
 projection of the aspirations of the anchestors
 inflation: raise awareness of these aspirations
 introjection: examine by the reality and
interiorize
 negation of compulsive fate
 Pontifex Ego
 2. transcendence (to find the
connections with those ideals, which
are above the person, to activate the
belief function)
 3. spiritual participation (union with the
higher ideals).
Fate is choice and 2 types of
selective acts can be separated:

1) Unconscious selective acts that are

directed by hereditary tendencies
2) Conscious selective acts that are directed
by the personal ego of the individual
himself/herself.
Very generally, schicksal analysis
as a therapeutic method
comprises of really 2 phases:

1) Analysis of compulsive fate - making the

patient conscious to be aware of and
confronting him with the inherited
ancestral demands.
2) Analysis of selective fate – analysis of the
connection between the ego and the spirit
Task of fate analyst:
a) Bring to conscious awareness the
inherent compulsion in the patient’s acts
b) Through reconstructing and
strengthening the ego, to shift the fate of
the individual toward a consciously
chosen fate
- the greater portion of selective fate in
comparison to compulsive fate leads the
less probability that he will suffer from a
morbid fate.
Tools of Fateanalytic therapy
 self-writtehn autobiography
 10 profiles Szondi-test
 Detailed genogram (familytree) of the
patient.
 PHASES OF FATE ANALYTIC
METHOD

1. Psychoanalytic phase
2. Psychoshock phase
3. Ego Analytic Phase
 PHASES OF FATE ANALYTIC
METHOD (1)

1) The psychoanalytic phase

 like classical psychoanalysis
 Repressed impulses, ideas,
experiences brought to consciousness
 Freudian methods: dream interpretation
/ free association until the „hole-period”
 PHASES OF FATE ANALYTIC
METHOD (2)

2) Fate analytic phase of psychoshock

therapy
 Analyst takes an active role
 Uses the hammer-blow associative
method: analyst believes that certain
stimulus words have entered the dream
or associative material from a specific,
inherited ancestral demand, these
stimulus words are repeated one after
another in a sledge-hammer fashion until
their shock effect ends .
Fate analysis uses 3 methods to discover
hidden ancestral demands and the
efficacy of latent hereditary tendencies
lying within the familial unconscious:

1) Abreaction- experiencing morbid ancestors

(produces shock-like effect)
2) Confrontation of patient with the morbid
ancestors on the basis of a genotropic
genealogy (family tree with the relatives)
3) Confronting patient with the latent familial drive
tendencies on the basis of the Szondi Test
Fate –analytical therapy….

 Patient is supposed to experience consciously the

epileptic, hysteric, asthmatic or paranoid episode
under the control of his own ego and in the
presence of the analyst
 The therapeutic goal here is to direct the
psychological interest of the patient to the morbid
symptoms so that he can attempt consciously to
satisfy the morbid tendencies which lie behind them
through some activity which has a social
significance
 PHASES OF FATE ANALYTIC
METHOD (3)

3) The Ego Analytic Phase

 all the old, disturbing identifications within
the ego must be reconstructed. The goal is
to find new ego ideals of existence and
possession (how to live out the inherited
drive-needs in a social positive way).
 The fateful choices in the future are
dependent on this reconstruction of the
individual’s ego.