International Journal Of Psycho-Analysis

1. Jones, Ernest. Sigmund Freud.

2. Freud, Sigmund. An Outline of Psychoanalysis.

Jones, Ernest. Sigmund Freud. Jones pays tribute to the great work of Sigmund Freud born in Freiberg, Moravia, May 6, 1856. He died in September 1939. Of the future of the Psychoanalytic movement without its founder Jones says that we cannot put from ourselves the question of how far, and in what way, Freud's decease is likely to affect the immediate future of psychoanalysis. Every analyst knows that the loss of such a significant figure may be expected to produce affective reactions, and further, that these will vary in different individuals. Freud himself was of the opinion, which he more than once expressed that his death would have a beneficial effect inasmuch as various resistances that had accumulated about his personality would then have the opportunity of dispersing: moreover, one may reckon with certain unconscious reactions of remorse which would damp down expression of such resistances. On the other hand it is likely that resistances which had been held in check by motives of piety will now manifest themselves more freely. One hope of Freud's, however that of founding an independent profession, has become increasingly remote and the chances of its ever being fulfilled are likely to be unfavorably affected by his death. III-health and age had for years so withdrawn Freud from the more administrative aspects of psychoanalytical work, and public events had of late so disorganized or scattered the vehicles of his influence, that it would be illusory to suppose that the disappearance of his personality will have any very important effect on what may be called the policies of analytical development. The effect of his death, with the cessation of his own contributions, on the internal technical aspects of analytical work is harder to predict. Presumably the more objectively founded of his conclusions will continue in being and any that may have had a more subjective