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Unlike the maturation courses, history generates more interest in facts, and classes more closely resemble storytelling than process. This group consists of six courses on the history of psychoanalysis; two courses on psychoanalytic research constitute the balance of the history sequence.5 The material is organized around time periods in which events occurred or discoveries were made. The biographies of Freud, seven or more, if read independently, will assist students to feel comfortable with Freud, the man.
This course traces the early developments in Freud's work, his method of analyzing data, and the effects of his friendships and career on his thinking. His Autobiographical note helps organize the influences on his early work; it traces his interest in hysteria to a trip to Paris and his work with Charcot. Career problems and the need for money in order to marry did not dampen his deep concern with the relationship between the nervous system and emotional functioning. Readings in the Project for a scientific psychology detail his studies of pathology centering on attempts to connect mind and body. The Extracts from the Fliess papers reveal his excitement