A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein (Vintage)

The major limitation of active expressive therapies in the West—the ones that attempt to get the patient to relive childhood traumas, to act out childhood impulses and desires—is that it is not “me-then” who is birth-screaming or shouting rage at my father or drinking unlimited malts. It is “me-now.” And the “me-now” can’t see or feel or think as t

Freud set out to develop a medical specialism but succeeded in producing a complex system of thought, a new way of understanding the mind, relationships, history and culture.

Le premier point d’achoppement entre Jung et Freud porte sur l’importance accordée par ce dernier à la sexualité. Si Jung adhère à la théorie freudienne du refoulement (on refoule dans l’inconscient une idée inacceptable ou un trauma trop violent), il récuse l’idée freudienne que tout refoulement est d’origine sexuelle. Il est persuadé que d’autres

For it was really shown that these memories correspond to traumas which were not sufficiently 'ab-reacted,' and on closer investigation of the reasons for this hindrance, we can find at least two series of determinants through which the reaction to the trauma was omitted.