EAN: 9783737201506

PSYCHO - ANALYSIS AND THE WAR NEUROSES - SIGMUN...

Many medical men  who had previously held themselves aloof from psycho - analysis  have been
brought into close touch with its theories through their service with the army compelling them
to deal with the question of the war neuroses. The reader can easily gather from Ferenczi's
contribution to the subject with what hesitation and misgivings this advance was made. Some of
the factors  such as the psycho-genetic origin of the symptoms  the significance of unconscious
impulses  and the part that the primary advantage of being ill plays in the adjusting psychical
conflicts (flight into disease)  all or which had long before been discovered and described as
operating in the neuroses of peace time  were found also in the war neuroses and almost
generally accepted. The war neuroses  in so far as they differ from the ordinary neuroses of
peace time through particular peculiarities  are to be regarded as traumatic neuroses  whose
existence has been rendered possible or promoted through an ego-conflict. In Abraham's
contribution there are plain indications of this ego-conflict  the English and American authors
whom Jones quotes have also recognised it. The conflict takes place between the old ego of
peace time and the new war-ego of the soldier  and it becomes acute as soon as the peace-ego is
faced with the danger of being killed through the risky undertakings of his newly formed
parasitical double. [...] This book on psycho - analysis and war neuroses is a reprint of the
originally published book from 1921.

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