Morton Prince M.D. The Mechanism and Interpretation of Dreams A Critical Review

Carl Jung

Newcomb Livraria Press

About this ebook

This is a critical article written but Jung in 1911 on an article which criticized his theories, titled "Morton Prince M.D.:The Mechanism and Interpretation of Dreams: Ein Kritische Besprechung" The original manuscript of this article was published in "Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forchungen" in Wien and Leipzig in 1911. The article that Jung is criticizing was published in English in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (Boston 1910).

Here Jung extensively responds to criticism of Psychoanalytical theory, and quotes from Morton Prince in English extensively. Jung also talks about Professor Hoche in Freiburg who described Freud and his school as "afflicted by epidemic madness" and wrote a famous article about it.

This edition is a new 2023 translation with an Afterword by the Translator, a philosophic index of Jung's terminology and a timeline of his life and works.

About the author

A massively influential Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Jung founded the field of analytical psychology and built the modern concepts of Therapy. His concepts of the collective unconscious and archetypes were influential in understanding human psychology. Jung’s theories on personality, including the notions of introversion and extraversion, have left a lasting mark on psychology and psychotherapy to this day.