• History of Psychiatry

    The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

    Chapter I by Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill I I Sigmund Freud A. A. Brill If in what follows I bring any contribution to the history of the psychoanalytic movement nobody must be surprised at the subjective nature of this paper, nor at the rôle which falls to me therein. For psychoanalysis is my creation; for ten years I was the only one occupied with it, and all the annoyance which this new subject caused among my contemporaries has been hurled upon my head in the form of criticism. Even today, when I am no longer the only psychoanalyst, I feel myself justified in assuming that none can…

  • History of Psychiatry

    The Freud Jung Letters

    April 21, 1974 By  LIONEL TRILLING http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/jung-freud.html THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SIGMUND FREUD AND C.G. JUNG Edited by William McGuire. Translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull. The relationship between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung had its bright beginning in 1906 and  came to its embittered end in 1913.  Its disastrous course was charted by the many letters the two  men wrote each other.  Of these a few have been lost but there are 360 extant, of which 164 are  from Freud, 196 from Jung.  In 1970 the Freud and Jung families made the enlightened decision  that this correspondence was to be edited as a unit, and it is now…