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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF NEUROSIS
Founded by C.K.Ogden
The International Library of Psychology PSYCHOANALYSIS In 28 Volumes I The Elements of Practical Psycho-Analysis Bousfield II A Neglected Complex and its Relation toFreudian Psychology Bousfield III The Omnipotent Self Bousfield IV The Social Basis of Consciousness Burrow V What is Psychoanalysis? Coriat VI The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis Fenichel VII The Technique of Psycho-Analysis Forsyth VIII Leonardo da Vinci Freud IX Totem and Taboo Freud X Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious Freud XI Morbid Fears and Compulsions Frink XII Facts and Theories of Psychoanalysis Hendrick XIII Fathers or Sons? Hopkins XIV Neurosis and Human Growth Horney XV The Neurotic Personality of Our Time Horney XVI New Ways in Psychoanalysis Horney XVII Our Inner Conflicts Horney
XVIII Self-Analysis Horney XIX Childhood and After Isaacs XX Social Development in Young Children Isaacs XXI Problems in Psychopathology Mitchell XXII The Psychoanalytic Method Pfister XXIII The Trauma of Birth Rank XXIV On the Bringing Up of Children Rickman XXV Conflict and Dream Rivers XXVI Psychoanalysis and Suggestion Therapy Stekel XXVII Psychoanalysis and Behaviour Tridon XXVIII Character and the Unconscious van der Hoop
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF NEUROSIS OTTO FENICHEL
First published in 1946 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “ To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” © 1946 Otto Fenichel All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in the International Library of Psychology. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of these reprints, but wishes to point out that certain characteristics of the original copies will, of necessity, be apparent in reprints thereof. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-98158-8 Master e-book ISBN
The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis ISBN 0415-21087-9 (Print Edition) Psychoanalysis: 28 Volumes ISBN 0415-21132-8 (Print Edition) The International Library of Psychology: 204 Volumes ISBN 0415-19132-7 (Print Edition)
PREFACE NEARLY twenty years of teaching at different psychoanalytic institutes and training centers both in Europe and in America—as staff member in five cities and as occasional guest lecturer in ten others—have convinced me of the need to summarize the psychoanalytic doctrines in a systematic and comprehensive manner, and t