Instinct and the Unconscious

by W.H.R.Rivers

A CONTRIBUTION TO A BIOLOGICAL THEORY OF THE PSYCHO-NEUROSES

Table of contents

• 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. Repression of War Experience
• IV. War-Neurosis and Military Training
• V. Freud's conception of the "Censorship"
• VI. "Wind-up"