Classics in the History of Psychology
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Christopher D. Green
York University, Toronto, Ontario
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INSTINCT AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
A CONTRIBUTION TO A BIOLOGICAL THEORY OF THE PSYCHO-NEUROSES
By William H.R. Rivers (1920)
PREFACE
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE UNCONSCIOUS
III. SUPPRESSION
IV. SUPPRESSION AND INHIBITION
V. THE CONTENT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
VI. THE NATURE OF INSTINCT
VII. THE DANGER-INSTINCTS
VIII. SUPPRESSION AND THE ALL-OR-NONE PRINCIPLE
IX. INSTINCT AND SUPPRESSION
X. DISSOCIATION
XI. THE "COMPLEX"
XII. SUGGESTION
XIII. HYPNOTISM
XIV. SLEEP
XV. THE PSYCHO-NEUROSES
XVI. HYSTERIA OR SUBSTITUTION-NEUROSIS
XVII. OTHER MODES OF SOLUTION
XVIII. REGRESSION
XIX. SUBLIMATION
APPENDIX
I. FREUD'S PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
II. A CASE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA
III. THE REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE
IV. WAR-NEUROSIS AND MILITARY TRAINING
V. FREUD'S CONCEPTION OF THE "CENSORSHIP"
VI. "WIND-UP"