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The Role of Philosophical Views and Training in the Further Development of the Psychoanalytical Movement. prof. james J. putnam.
Feeling for Nature. dr. hanns sachs.
The Psychology of Dramatic Construction. leo kaplan.
The Evolution from Pathography to Psychography. dr. J. sadger.
Symbolism of Tairy Tales. herbert silberer.
Psychoanalytic Observations on a Journey through England. dr. alphonse maeder.
1The Role of Philosophical Views and Training in the Further Development of the Psychoanalytical Movement.—This paper, read at the Third International Psychoanalytical Congress, held at Weimar, discusses the wider philosophical implications of psychoanalytical theories.
The current theories of psychoanalysis owe their efficiency chiefly to the biogenetic viewpoint which psychoanalytic practice implies. Putnam advocates a clearer recognition of this underlying biogenetic principle. Psychoanalysis would be the gainer if we should recognize, once for all, that not the external physical series of events but the internal processes constitute the crux of life. True, Kant has pointed out the helplessness of all metaphysics as a scientific discipline; it may be that, for fundamental principles, we must content ourselves with conceptual artefacts and symbols, but science, too, makes use of similar artefacts and symbols of thought so long as they help the conceptual treatment of our experiential data. Of course, physical and psychic process may be reasonably conceived as but two sides of the same existence, not unlike the convex and concave sides of a lens, as, indeed, Fechner contended they must be. Whatever the view which the psychoanalyst may feel justified to embrace Dr. Putnam conceives that it is his duty thus to square