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When the Norwegian psychoanalytic society celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1984, it arranged six open lectures at the University in Oslo. These lectures are now published as a book. In a short introduction, Per Anthi, Fiffi Piene and Per Vaglum present a brief outline of psychoanalysis as a method of treatment and a sketch of how psychoanalysis has developed in Norway since 1934. According to Freud, Ragnar Vogt, Professor in Psychiatry at Oslo University, was the first who mentioned Freud's method in the preface to a textbook in psychiatry in 1905. The purpose of the book is to give an impression of how psychoanalysis is applied and to give examples of how psychoanalysts today think and practice. The book is aimed at all in the healing profession, and in addition at ordinary people who are thinking about problems of life.
Peter Andreas Holter has given his lecture the title “The psychoanalyst: the low-voiced provocateur”. Holter addresses himself to the uninformed public in a very informative way, describing psychoanalysis as a method of treatment. His exposition is lively and engaged. In a serious way he gives the uninformed public a realistic view of what is going on behind the analyst's closed door. Many attempts have been made to demystify the clinical analytic situation, but [don't think it is been done better than by Holter.
In the title of his lecture, Jarl Jørstad asks whether dreams are still the royal road to the unconscious. After having mentioned Freud's classical dream interpretation, Jørstad includes in his lecture, modern natural scientific sleep and dream research. Furthermore, he includes non-analytic and controversial points of view, for instance those on telepathic dreams. Jørstad's lecture is in this way an attempt to integrate psychoanalytic thinking with many other ways of thinking.