Surprise And The Psycho-Analyst

On the Conjecture and Comprehension of Unconscious Processes

Theodor Reik, Reik, Theodor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415209694
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136308574
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

First published in 1999. This is Volume XIV of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1936, this book seeks to describe what is required of an investigator into the unconscious mental processes of another person, and what he achieves. By describing the psychological process of cognition from within, the author intends at the same time to trace the way from conjecturing to comprehending the unconscious processes.

INDEX

Ambivalence, 169, 183

America, American, 62, 70, 113, 180, 181, 194, 256

Amnesia, 136

Analysis, controlled, 150, 153, 275

—, training, 78, 142, 144

Animistic, 197

Antæus, 90

Ariadne, 105

Artur, 225–9

Assimilation, unconscious, 15, 16, 84, 101, 107, 110, 204, 215

Athens, 287

Attention, 31–50, 136, 232

—, active, 37, 44, 46, 48, 49

—, involuntary, 36, 37, 38, 39

—, mobile, see Attention, poised

—, passive, 37

—, poised, 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 41, 43, 46, 47, 49, 50, 140, 176

—, voluntary, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 46, 48

Australian, 67, 166, 189

Austria, Austrian, 11, 12, 34, 62, 239, 266

Beethoven, 114, 180

Behaviourist, 7, 86

Benoit, 166

Bergeret, M., 246

Berlin, 226

Bismarck, 246

Blind spot, see Scotoma

Blunders, 95, 104, 115, 116, 121, 254

Budapest, 211, 218

Busch, Wilhelm, 105

Censor, intellectual, 176

Chaotic situation, 89, 92, 96, 99, 103

Charge of energy, 244

Cognizance, 50, 101

Complex, 88, 145, 146, 151, 152, 214, 216

—, castrati...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• I INTRODUCTORY. PSYCHOLOGY IS NOT SELF-EVIDENT
• II CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS OBSERVATION
• III NOTICING, ATTENTION, AND TAKING NOTE
• IV FROM THE TRULY STARTLING TO THE STARTLINGLY TRUE
• V THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF ANALYTICAL INTERPRETATION AND OF WIT
• VI KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCED AND KNOWLEDGE LEARNT BY ROTE
• VII THERE IS NO ROYAL ROAD THROUGH THE UNCONSCIOUS
• VIII POINT OF DEPARTURE, PAUSE, RESUMPTION
• IX CONCERNING TACT, TIME, AND RHYTHM
• X THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN MEMORY AND REMINISCENCE
• XI AN UNCOMPREHENDED CASE
• XII THE QUESTION OF EVIDENCE—CONJECTURE AND COMPREHENSION
• XIII THE PSYCHICAL PROCESS OF CONJECTURE
• XIV THE ORIGINAL NATURE OF COMPREHENSION
• XV THE INSTINCTIVE BASIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONJECTURE
• XVI CONCERNING RECIPROCAL ILLUMINATION
• XVII THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RECURRENT REFLECTION
• XVIII THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS IN THE EGO
• XIX THE PSYCHICAL MECHANISM OF ANTICIPATION
• XX THE SHOCK OF THOUGHT
• XXI PSYCHOLOGICAL COGNITION AND SUFFERING. THE COURAGE NOT TO COMPREHEND
• INDEX