Excerpt from Studies in Psychoanalysis: An Account of Twenty-Seven Concrete Cases Preceded by a Theoretical Exposition; Comprising Lectures Delivered in Geneva at the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute and at the Faculty of Letters in the UniversityPsychoanalysis is tersely defined by Edward Jones as the study of unconscious mentation (papers on Psychoanalysis, p. Crichton Miller writes (the New Psychology and the Teacher, p. 135) The aim of psychoanalysis is to reveal to the individual, from his own experience, the unconscious motive that is at work in producing his neuroses. Charles Baudouin, we think, would accept both the definition and the statement of aim; but he would certainly stress the view that psychoanalysis has to deal with the normal more than with the pathological, that it is to be looked upon as a method of re - education rather than as a curative method. He takes, of course, the same view of autosuggestion. His desire is to coordinate the essentials of intuitionism (the Bergsonian doctrine considered apart from all meta physics), the teachings of the New Nancy School, and the theories of psychoanalysis, as contributions to educational science, psychology, and philosophy. The present volume, therefore, consists of studies in psychoanalysis from this outlook, though incident ally we find in it valuable therapeutic applications of the study of subconscious mentation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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