THE PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN CONDUCT a Votume I NovemBer, 1913 NuMBER I ee a ORIGINAL ARTICLES THE THEORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS By C.G. June, MD, LL.D. of THE umIveRsitY o ztn1cH INTRODUCTION In these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysis with the existing theory, or rather, with the approaches to such a theory. Here is my attitude to- ‘wards those principles which my honored teacher Sigmund Frend has evolved from the experience of many decades. Since I have ong been closely connected with psychoanalysis, it will perhaps + be asked with astonishment how it is that Iam now for the first "2 time defining my theoretical position. When, some ten years = ago, it came home to me what a vast distance Freud had already travelled beyond the bounds of contemporary knowledge of ‘ paveho-pathological phenomena, especially the psychology of the complex mental processes, I no fonger felt myself in a position to exercise any real criticism. I did not possess the sorry mandarin- 9 courage of those people who—upon a basis of ignorance and incapacity—consider themselves justified in “critical ” rejections. T thought one must fi -t work modestly for years in such a field F before one might dare to criticize. The evil results of prema- ; ture and superficial criticism have certainly not been lacking. 8 A preponderating umber of critics have attacked with as much GR anger as ignorance. Psychoanalysis has flourished undisturbed 2 : Copyright (c) 2008 ProQuest LLC Copyright (c) Guilford Publications