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PSYCHOLOGY FOR NEUROLOGISTS, BY FREUD, 1895. Siegfried Bernfeld, Ph.D.
The collection of Freud's letters addressed to Wilhelm Fliess, which appeared recently in German, contains the fragment of a paper by Freud to which he refers as a 'Psychology for Neurologists'. A brief abstract of this paper is given and the place which it holds in the development of Freud's ideas determined. This
confirms a previous paper by Bernfeld1 in which he showed that Freud derived his concept of psychological economy and some of the basic dynamic concepts of psychoanalysis from his studies in brain anatomy and physiology.
Shortly after the writing of this 'Psychology', Freud separated the economic and dynamic concepts from any concrete neurological model and transformed them into the concept 'psychic apparatus'. The relationship of Freud's ideas to the contemporary teachings of Brücke and Meynert on the one hand, and Hughlings Jackson on the other, is sketched.