Final Contributions to the Problems and

This volume, first published in 1955, presents papers written by Ferenczi during his last years and some of his unpublished notes. It demonstrates Ferenczi's combination of great clinical understanding and an almost uncanny insight into unconscious process. Among the forty important items included are papers on the following: Freud's Influence on Medicine; Laughter; Epileptic Fits; Dirigible Dreams; Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis; Paranoia; the Interpretation of Tunes Which Come into One's Head, and the Genesis of Jus Primae Noctis

Editor's Note

PAPERS WRITTEN AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF `FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY AND TECHNIQUE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS'

5

(372)

To Sigmund Freud on his Seventieth Birthday (1926)

11

(7)

Freud's Importance for the Mental Hygiene Movement (1926)

18

(4)

Organ Neuroses and their Treatment (1926)

22

(7)

Present-Day Problems in Psycho-Analysis (1926)

29

(12)

Gulliver Fantasies (1926)

41

(20)

The Adaptation of the Family to the Child (1927)

61

(16)

The Problem of the Termination of the Analysis (1927)

77

(10)

The Elasticity of Psycho-Analytic Technique (1928)

87

(15)

The Unwelcome Child and his Death Instinct (1929)

102

(6)

The Principles of Relaxation and Neocatharsis (1930)

108

(18)

Child-Analysis in the Analysis of Adults (1931)

126

(17)

Freud's Influence on Medicine (1933)

143

(13)

Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child (1933)

156

(12)

POSTHUMOUS PAPERS

More about Homosexuality (c. 1909)

168

(7)

On the Interpretation of Tunes that come into One's Head (c. 1909)

175

(2)

Laughter (c. 1913)

177

(6)

Mathematics (c. 1920)

183

(14)

On Epileptic Fits. Observations and Reflections (c. 1921)

197

(8)

A Contribution to the Understanding of the Psychoncuroses of the Age of Involution (c. 1921-2)

205

(8)

Paranoia (c. 1922)

213

(3)

Notes and Fragments (1920 and 1930-2)

216

(64)

I. (1920)

Nocturnal Emission, Masturbation and Coitus

216

(1)

`Zuhalter' and `Femme Entretenante'

217

(1)

Anxiety and Free Floating Libido

218

(1)

On Affect Hysteria

218

(1)

II. (1930)

Oral Erotism in Education

219

(1)

Each Adaptation is Preceded by an Inhibited Attempt at Splitting

220

(1)

Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptation

221

(1)

Autosymbolism and Historical Representation

221

(1)

On the Analytical Construction of Mental Mechanisms

221

(2)

On the Theme of Neocatharsis

223

(1)

Thoughts on `Pleasure in Passivity'

224

(3)

Fundamental Traumatic Effect of Maternal Hatred or of the Lack of Affection

227

(1)

Fantasies on a Biological Model of Super-Ego Formation

227

(3)

Trauma and Striving for Health

230

(2)

III. (1931)

Attempt at a Summary

232

(3)

On the Patient's Initiative

235

(1)

Relaxation and Education

236

(2)

On the Revision of the Interpretation of Dreams

238

(5)

Aphoristic Remarks on the Theme of being Dead-being a Woman

243

(1)

The Birth of the Intellect

244

(2)

Fluctuation of Resistance

246

(2)

On Masochistic Orgasm

248

(1)

Trauma and Anxiety

249

(2)

IV. (1932 and undated)

Fakirism

251

(1)

The Three Main Principles

252

(1)

On Shock (Erschutterung)

253

(1)

Suggestion = Action Without one's Own Will

254

(1)

Repression

255

(1)

Scheme of Organizations

256

(1)

Accumulatio Libidinis

257

(1)

Quantum Theory and Individualism

257

(1)

The Technique of Silence

258

(1)

Once Again on the Technique of Silence

258

(2)

The Therapeutic Argument

260

(1)

Psychic Infantilism = Hysteria

260

(1)

The Analyst's Attitude to his Patient

261

(1)

The Vulnerability of Traumatically Acquired Progressive Faculties (also of Infant Prodigies)

262

(1)

The Two Extremes: Credulity and Scepticism

263

(1)

Infantility Resulting from Anxiety Concerning Real Tasks

264

(1)

The Language of the Unconscious

265

(2)

Suppression of the Idea of the `Grotesque'

267

(1)

Repetition in Analysis worse than Original Trauma

268

(1)

Pull of the Past (Mother's Womb, Death Instinct) and Flight from the Present

268

(1)

Suggestion in (after) Analysis

269

(1)

Integration and Splitting

270

(1)

Indiscretion of the Analyst in Analysis-helpful

271

(1)

Exaggerated Sex Impulse and its Consequences

271

(1)

Theoretical Doubt in place of a Personal One

272

(2)

Chiromancy

274

(1)

On Lamaism and Yoga

274

(1)

Abstraction and Memory for Details

275

(1)

Abstraction and Perception of Details

275

(1)

Yoga-Discipline

276

(1)

Psychotrauma

276

(1)

Cure Finishing

277

(1)

Snake-Hiss

278

(1)

Trauma-Analysis and Sympathy

278

(1)

Amnesia

278

(2)

PAPERS OMITTED FROM PREVIOUS COLLECTIONS

Psycho-Analysis and Education (1908)

280

(11)

The Effect on Women of Premature Ejaculation in Men (1908)

291

(4)

Stimulation of the Anal Erotogenic Zone as a Precipitating Factor in Paranoia (1911)

295

(4)

On the Organization of the Psycho-Analytic Movement (1911)

299

(9)

Exploring the Unconscious (1911)

308

(5)

Dirigible Dreams (1912)

313

(3)

On the Definition of Introjection (1912)

316

(3)

A Case of `Deja Vu' (1912)

319

(2)

Varia: On the Genealogy of the `Fig Leaf' (1912)

321

(1)

Varia: Metaphysics=Metapsychology (1912)

322

(1)

Varia: Paracelsus to the Physicians (1912)

323

(1)

Varia: Goethe on the Reality Value of the Poet's Fantasy (1912)

324

(1)

A Forerunner of Freud in the Theory of Sex (1912)

325

(1)

Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis (1912)

326

(9)

Interpretation of Unconscious Incestuous Fantasies from a Parapraxis (Brantome) (1912)

335

(1)

Taming of a Wild Horse (1913)

336

(5)

On the Genesis of the Jus Primae Noctis (1913)

341

(1)

Review of Groddeck's `Die psychische Bedingtheit und psychoanalytische Behandlung organischer Leiden (1917)

342

(2)

Review of Groddeck's `Der Seelensucher' (1921)

344

(5)

Discussion on Tic (1921)

349

(2)

Psycho-analysis and the Mental Disorders of General Paralysis (1922)

351

(20)

Freud's `Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego' (1922)

371

(6)

Bibliography

377

(10)

Index

387

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