EDITOR’S PREFACE
The following papers have been gathered together from various sources, and are now available for the first time to English readers. The subject of Psychoanalysis is much in evidence, and is likely to occupy still more attention in the near future, as the psychological content of the psychoses and neuroses is more generally appreciated and understood. It is of importance, therefore, that the fundamental writings of both the Viennese and Zürich Schools should be accessible for study. Several of Freud’s works have already been translated into English, and it is fortunate that at the moment of going to press, in addition to the volume now offered, Dr. Jung’s “Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido” is appearing in America under the title of “The Psychology of the Unconscious.” These two books, read in conjunction, offer a fairly complete picture of the scientific and philosophic standpoint of the leader of the Zürich School. It is the task of the future to judge and expand the findings of both schools, and to work at the devolopment of the new psychology, which is still in its infancy.
It will be a relief to many students of the Unconscious to see in it another aspect than that of “a wild beast couched, waiting its hour to spring.” Some readers have gathered that view of it from the writings of the Viennese School. This view is at most that dangerous thing “a half-truth.”
There is no doubt that some even scientific persons have a certain fear of whither the study of the Unconscious may lead. These fearful persons should be reminded that they possess an Unconscious in spite of themselves, and that they share it in common with every human being. It is only
