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tions. To this species of complex indicator Jung has 

 given the name "perseveration." 



The frequent recurrence of the same reaction word 

 throughout the experiment, the assimilation of the test 

 word in an unusual sense, repeating the stimulus word 

 before reacting, replying with more than a single word, 

 offering explanations, etc., are among the many additional 

 indications that a complex has been excited. 



Such are the chief means affording a clue to the lines 

 along which the analysis may most judiciously direct its 

 inquiry and so contribute to effect the release and thorough 

 ventilation of the repressed affects which are responsible 

 for the inner psychic disharmony. 



It is thus that the physician succeeds in establishing a 

 synthesis amid the discordant, mutually exclusive ele- 

 ments of the personality. It is thus that the psychic ten- 

 sion due to the mental conflict is eliminated and the dis- 

 sociated elements of the ego are brought together in a 

 simple unitary stream of consciousness. 



Such is the treatment of psychic disorders by the method 

 of psychoanalysis. The statement given here affords but 

 the merest hint of the full import of the method. This is 

 long and laborious, often entailing in actual practice many 

 months for the adequate analysis of a single case. To 

 gain anything like a commensurate idea of the full sig- 

 nificance of the psychoanalytic method, one must put him- 

 self in touch with Freud's conceptions of the unconscious 

 as presented in his writings. In his various contributions 

 to the literature of psychopathology, Freud has presented 

 an account of the system of psychology on which he bases 

 his explanation of the essential processes underlying neu- 

 rotic disorders and in which he defines the rationale of 

 the psychoanalytic method of treatment. 



USES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 



While, in my opinion, the discoveries made by Freud 

 through his long and laborious investigations are as sound 



