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This work is a collection of essays by various authors, together with experiments on the general subject of word association, compiled under the direction of Dr. C. G. Jung. The separate chapters had previously been published elsewhere and were subsequently accumulated into a separate publication, of which this work is a translation.
Those interested in psychoanalysis have been familiar for some years, in a general way at least, with the word association work of the Zurich School, and it is a matter for congratulation that at this date the results of this work have been put into English and thus made more widely accessible. In this volume the very large material, the result of Dr. Jung's own experimental work in association with Dr. Riklin, is incorporated. This is a very excellent and exhaustive monographic study of the subject and alone it is of sufficient importance to warrant translation. It is a paper to which all those who are engaged in psychoanalysis and who come to use word association for any reason whatever will turn back for reference for some time to come. The other essays refer to various subjects. There are, for example, essays on the application of the association method of investigation to imbeciles and idiots, by Dr. Wehrlin, to the epileptic by Dr. Jung, to the hysteric by Dr. Riklin, and an exceedingly interesting article on the statistical investigations on word associations and on familial agreement in reaction type among uneducated persons by Dr. Emma Furst. A very interesting opening chapter is upon the significance of association experiments by Professor Bleuler, who also has another chapter on consciousness and association. There is one chapter on the psychogalvanic phenomena in association experiments by Dr. L. Binswanger, and another on the physical accompaniments of association processes by Dr. Nunberg. In addition to these chapters are some further communications by Dr. Jung dealing with the applications of association to different psych