This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II INTROJECTION AND TRANSFERENCE /. Introjection in the Neuroses THE productivity of the neurosis (during a course of psycho-analytic treatment) is far from being extinguished, but exercises itself in the creation of a peculiar sort of thoughtformation, mostly unconscious, to which the name 'transferences' may be given. "These transferences are re-impressions and reproductions of the emotions and phantasies that have to be awakened and brought into consciousness during the progress of the analysis, and are characterised by the replacement of a former person by the physician." In these sentences Freud announced, in the masterly description of a hysterical case,1 one of his most significant discoveries. Whoever since then, following Freud's indications, has tried to investigate psycho-analytically the mental life of neurotics, must have become convinced of the truth of this observation. The greatest difficulties of such an analysis, indeed, proceed from the remarkable peculiarity of neurotics that "in order to avoid insight into their own unconscious, they transfer to the physician treating them all their affects (hate, love) that have been reinforced from the unconscious."1 Published in the Jahrbuch dcr Psychoanalyse 1909. '"Bruchstiick einer Hysterie-analyse," in Sammlung Kleiner Schriften zur Ncurosenlehre, Bd. II. When, however, one becomes more familiar with the workings of the neurotic mind, one recognises that the psychoneurotic's inclination to transference expresses itself not only in the special case of a psychoanalytic treatment, and not only in regard to the physician, but that transference is a psychical mechanism that is characteristic of the neurosis altogether, one that is evidenced in all situations of life, and...