The Technique of Psychoanalysis (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Technique of Psychoanalysis

Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great, and the truest state of mind rested in, becomes false. [chinese Proverb] The traveller in a foreign land who keeps to the main highways needs no guide. He does not even have to know the language of the country for a judiciously distributed pour boire will put him in touch with all the more common requirements of his surroundings.

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Excerpt from The Technique of Psychoanalysis

The traveller in a foreign land who keeps to the main highway needs no guide. He does not even have to know the language of the country for a judiciously distributed pour boire will put him in touch with all the more common requirements of his surroundings.

With his Baedeker in hand, he may even wander about in strange surroundings oblivious to the unknown claque about him and return to his haven of safety with an outline of the topography of the city, its bricks and mortar, and possibly its trolley cars. But were he to go into the by-ways, were he to reach out for an understanding of the rich life that is actually being lived about him, he is more or less shut off, and deaf and dumb must needs grope about if without knowledge of the language of the country.

The doctor of medicine is in some such a position - his unexplored countries come to him, however, he does not go to them. His Baedekers - Gray, Osier, and perhaps a rich library, furnishing the details of many complicated structures - lead him through the more frequented paths of disease processes, but, like the real traveller he not infrequently finds himself lost in unexplored territory. A new language strikes his ear at every specialistic frontier that he would pass; a rich and apparently hopeless terminology has to be mastered if he would travel in new fields, and if he would know what is going on over the boundary he must make it a part of himself.

It is of no service to him to rationalize his indolence by calling this speech new-fangled, absurd or unnecessary. To shut his eyes and ears to these new languages, refusing to learn them, only hampers himself, and the stream of active intelligence goes on, leaving him in an eddy of his own isolation.

Words are only tools to be used to cut into the facts of nature, so that fellow workers, through mutual understanding, can make a concerted effort and clear a pathway into the secrets of life.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.