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After a brief review of the developments of metapsychology and the reason for the opposition to psychoanalysis being a blow to the narcissism of human beings, but rationalized
as too great an insistence on sex, there is discussed the influence of psychoanalysis upon literature, particularly the use of the method of free associations on the structure of literary productions. The examples chosen were Butler's “Way of All Flesh,” Joyce's“Ulysses,” the novels of Marcel Proust, and T. S. Eliot's“The Waste Land.”
It is pointed out that in these literary productions the author possessed such an insight into his own unconscious that he was able to utilize the free association method to record his unconscious thinking, a technical achievement deliberately taken over from the practice of psychoanalysis. Thus the modelling of many recent literary works has been based on the diffusion of psychoanalytic knowledge.
What Is a Cure in Psychoanalysis?—The author attempts in a short presentation to give a theoretic and practical summary of the phenomena concerned in psychoanalytic therapy.
The increased understanding of the rôle of the ego impulses in the genesis of a neurosis has aided in the application of this knowledge, slowly gained in the course of the development of theory and technique, in efforts to bring about a cure. The formation of a new ego-ideal is an important, if not the most important factor, in therapeutical results. By virtue of a change on the part of the newly formed ego-ideal to the libido strivings, these may be now taken care of in one or more of three ways, viz., rejection, as no longer useful; by acceptance as such; and lastly, by sublimation.
Again is stressed the importance of handling the resistances, in so far as they relate both to the unconscious of the patient and to the analytic situation. These resistances make themselves mor