The Psychology Of Dementia Praecox

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung VOLUME 8 BOLLINGEN SERIES XX THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX C. G. JUNG TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL BOLLINGEN SERIES PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS COPYRIGHT © i960 BY BOLLINGEN FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, Ν. Y. PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND LONDON First Princeton jBollingen Paperback Edition, 19J4 Extracted from The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, Vol. 3 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung. All the volumes comprising the Collected Works constitute number XX in Bollingen Series, under the editorship of Herbert Read (d. 1968), Michael Fordham, and Gerhard Adler; executive editor, William McGuire. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of without the publisher's consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUE CARD NUMBER: 73-18936 ISBN 0-691-01800-6 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, N. J. EDITORIAL NOTE "The Psychology of Dementia Praecox" was the culmination of Jung's early researches at the Burgholzli Hospital into the nature of the psychoses. It was the publication which established him once and for all as a psychiatric investigator of the first rank. Jung's work on the manifestations of schizophrenia was a potent factor in the development of his theory of psychic energy and of the archetypes. He believed that, in order to account for the imagery, splitting processes, and defect in the sense of reality observable in this disease, neither the sexual theory of libido, which leads to the concept of narcissism, nor personal and genetic study is adequate. In short, the theory of archetypes becomes indispensable. Jung was indeed one of the first to employ individual psycho­ therapy with schizophrenic patients. Not only this: there are clear indications in this volume of how early in this century he investigated the relationship between mental hospital adminis­ tration and the course of the supposed disease-process. His Swiss forerunners, Forel and Bleuler, both men with intense psycho­ logical interests, also realized this, and the Burgholzli team did much pioneering work in changing the hospital atmosphere. Today this understanding is being gradually applied with the good results that Jung anticipated. It may be regretted that there is no more in this volume about the psychotherapy of schizophrenia. Why is it that Jung did not write more on this subject? The answer is given in one of his later essays, "Recent Thoughts on Schizophrenia," where he states that in spite of all the developments over the years, knowledge of this disorder is still so fragmentary that he could organize his findings only in outline and in relation to individual case-studies. M . F . , G.A. EDITORIAL NOTE * Jung first encountered Freud's work when, in igoo or 1901, he read The Interpretation of Dreams soon after arriving at the Burgholzli Hospital to take up his first professional post, as an assistant physician. Over the next five years, his publications reflected his reading and study of Freud's books and papers, which were preoccupying the entire group of psychiatrists who formed the medical staff of the Burgholzli under Eugen Bleuler's leadership. In his 1936 introduction to the present work, Dr. A. A. Brill has described the intellectual climate he dis­ covered at the Hospital when he arrived there in 1907 as an associate in research.1 The personal relationship between Freud and Jung began when, in April 1906, Jung sent Freud a copy of the first volume of Diagnostic Association Studies undertaken at the Burgholzli un