The history of the psychoanalytic movement by Sigmund Freud
"The history of the psychoanalytic movement" by Sigmund Freud is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It charts the birth and growth of psychoanalysis, outlines its core ideas and methods, and narrates its spread, institutionalization, and conflicts—especially Freud’s defenses of the theory against critics and former allies. The opening of the work presents Freud’s own role in creating psychoanalysis, acknowledging Breuer’s “cathartic method” while marking his departures—free association, the
centrality of resistance and transference, and the theory of repression. He recounts how he moved from hypnosis to analysis, from a discarded “seduction theory” to infantile sexuality and psychic reality, and how dream interpretation became his anchor during years of isolation. The narrative then widens to the formation of the early Vienna circle, the crucial alliance with the Zürich clinic (Bleuler, Jung), and the international spread to America with supportive figures like Putnam, Brill, and Jones. Freud sketches the founding of journals and societies and the extension of analytic thinking to myth, literature, and religion. He explains his avoidance of polemics, yet describes organizing the International Psychoanalytic Association and the early congresses. This opening section culminates in the first major schism, detailing Adler’s break and “Individual Psychology,” which Freud criticizes for rejecting repression and sexual motivation, and it foreshadows a second rupture to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 |
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| Translator | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden), 1874-1948 |
| LoC No. | 17007058 |
| Uniform Title | Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung. English |
| Title | The history of the psychoanalytic movement |
| Original Publication | New York: The Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1917. |
| Series Title | Nervous and mental disease monograph series, no. 25 |
| Note | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Psychoanalytic_Movement |
| Credits | Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 47.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | RC: Medicine: Internal medicine |
| Subject | Psychoanalysis -- History |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76298 |
| Release Date | Jun 14, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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