The New York herald., 1921-01-23


Jelliffe was in regard to this very number
of believers and practitioners. The forego-
Ing paragraph embraces his answer, giving
the impression that most advanced physi-
clans now measurably use 1t in their prac-
tice, while many are concentrating their ex-
periments in this interesting and promising
field
Another concrete question dealt with the
aspersion placed by newspaper correspond
ents many of those who did work in
psychoanalysis This was that the motive
OF too many was to arouse the dreams of
eroticism in women and fasten the loves of
these women on their medical attendant
Turning the Light of Reason
On the Question of Love
DR.. Jellffe answered this question in the
vigorous sentence reported at the beginning
Of his talk. He amplified his summing up
by the following remarks
IF the truth were known" said he. this
condition is frequently embarrassing to all
doctors, who have to guard themselves care
fully against ii. In the case of psychoan-
alysts this co-called love is dealt with
openly; we play hand openly and lay
the cards face down on the table. We ask
our female patient what this love is, where
1t comes from and what it leads to. If in her
waking moments she is unable to tell us she
will dos in sub-conscious state Then the
love may turn out to be another sensation
incorrectly interpreted. The light of reason
is turned on it and the symbol properly
read.
ITO true follower of Freud and one who
is genuinely devoted to science as discov-
cries are made in it of human interest
through psychic means there can be no
other way of dealing with these simulated
love affairs. He seeks the highest develop
ment of the individual and he would be self
criminal as well as false to his duty to a
patient to do otherwise. BY neglect in.
repression, by concealng the truth he would
harm her and hurt himself But to drag
this illicit energy from its lair to the light
and transform it into a noble feeling is
salvation to both"
Freud's statements in the fields of the
erotic and neurotic say practically the same
thing as. they appear in the Introduction
TO Psychoanalysis." 1t is a fact however
that in this book, perhaps from the fact o,
its condensed treatment of the subject every
theme started leads back sooner or later to
sex relations. By means Of symbols drawn
from dreams the bulk of the evidence of the
value of the new school of thought is shown,
and all these dream symbols, Freud says, are
sex symbols. Because of their very general
presence the motives of Freud are apt to be
given a coarser complexion than they per-
haps deserve.
To offset this kind Of thing Freud's dis
course on memory gaps and amnesa is
frequently enounced as if to show that he
is a true scientist and not merely collector
of unspeakable facts. 1t is possible, he says,
to express the object of psychoanalytic treat
ment in formula. This formula is: All
pathogenic unconscious experience must be
transposed into consciousness.
Freud replaces this formula by another in
the case of amnesia. That is: All memory
gaps of the patient must be filled out, all his
amnesias abolished. Hysteria is usually
characterized by grandiose amnesias The
most recent experiences of the patient are
blurred by these losses of memory that
especially the provocations which brought
OH the illness, or favored it, If not wiped out
completely by the amnesia, at least are par
TALLY obliterated. Important details have
disappeared from the general picture of such
a recent memory or are replaced by false
memories. Freud says 1t frequently happens
that about the conclusion of an analysis
memories of recent experiences suddenly
come TO light.
Freud's Views Concerning
Criticism of PsychoanaIysis
In discussing this phase of the activities
of the psychoanalyst Freud deals with a
subject free from erotic features and as at
the same time he chooses to give an expla
nation OF the system II may very properly
find quotation and perhaps reception by
those who are curious concerning 1t and
him. He says:
by bringing into prominence the uncon-
scious In psychic life we have raised evil
spirits of criticism against psychoanalysis.
Be not surprised at this and do not believe
that the opposition is directed only against ,
the difficulties offered by the conception OF
the unconscious or against the relative in
accessibility of the experiences which rep
resent It, I believe II comes from another
source.
Humanity in the course Of time has had
TO endure from the hands of science two
great outrages against its naive self love.
The first was when humanity discovered
that our earth was not the eentre of the
universe, but only a tiny speck in world
system hardly conceivable in it's magnitude.
THE second occurred when man was
robbed Of his apparent superiority under
special creation by the researches of biolo-
gsts. They established his ineradicable
animal nature and rebuked him for his de-
scent from the animal kingdom.
The third and most irritating insult is
flung at the human mania of greatness BY
psychological research, which seeks to prove
to the L that IL Is not even master In its
own house, but is dependent upon the
scantiest information concerning all that
goes on unconsciously In its psychic life
I'VE psychoanalysts were neither the first
nor the only ones TO announce this admoni-
tion to look within ourselves. We are
however fated to represent IL most insist
emily and to confirm II by means of en-
pirical data, which are of Importance to
every person. This is the reason for the