Psychology of the Unconscious

Part I

CHAPTER

INTRODUCTION 3

Relation of the Incest Phantasy to the Oedipus Legend—Moral
revulsion over such a discovery—The unity of the antique and
modern psychology—Followers of Freud in this field—The need
of analyzing historical material in relation to individual
analysis.

I.— CONCERNING THE TWO KINDS OF THINKING 8

Antiquity of the belief in dreams—Dream-meanings
psychological, not literal—They concern wish-fulfilments—A
typical dream: the sexual assault—What is symbolic in our
every-day thinking?—One kind of thinking: intensive and
deliberate, or directed—Directed thinking and thinking in
words—Origin of speech in primitive nature sounds—The
evolution of speech—Directed thinking a modern
acquisition—Thinking, not directed, a thinking in images:
akin to dreaming—Two kinds of thinking: directed and dream
or phantasy thinking—Science an expression of directed
thinking—The discipline of scholasticism as a
forerunner—Antique spirit created not science but
mythology—Their world of subjective phantasies similar to
that we find in the childmind of to-day; or in the
savage—The dream shows a similar type—Infantile thinking and
dreams a re-echo of the prehistoric and the ancient—The
myths a mass-dream of the people: the dream the myth of the
individual—Phantastic thinking concerns wishes—Typical
cases, showing kinship with ancient myths—Psychology of man
changes but slowly—Phantastic thinking tells us of mythical
or other material of undeveloped and no longer recognized
wish tendencies in the soul—The sexual base—The wish,
because of its disturbing nature, expressed not directly,
but symbolically.