psycho-sexuality may also be discovered in a quite other and remote field, in the investigation of the family.[1] The most recent thorough investigations demonstrate the predominating influence of the father often lasting for centuries. The mother seems of less importance in the family.[2] If this is true for heredity on the physical side how much more should we expect from the psychological influences emanating from the father? These experiences, and those gained more particularly in an analysis carried out conjointly with Dr. Otto Gross, have impressed upon me the soundness of this view. The problem has been considerably advanced and deepened by the investigations of my pupil Dr. Emma Fürst into familiar resemblances in the reaction-type.[3] Fürst made association experiments on one hundred persons belonging to twenty-four families. Of this extensive material, only the results in nine families and thirty-seven persons (all uneducated) have been worked out and published. But the painstaking calculations do already permit some valuable conclusions. The associations are classified on the Kræpelin-aschaffenburg scheme as simplified and modified by myself; the difference is then calculated between each group of qualities of the subjects experimented upon and the corresponding group of every other subject experimented upon. Thus we finally get the differentiation of the mean in reaction-type. The following is the result:—
Non-related men differ among themselves by 5.9.
Non-related women differ among themselves by 6.0.
Related men differ among themselves by 4.1.
Related women differ among themselves by 3.8.
- ↑ Sommer, “Familienforschung und Vererbungslehre.” Barth, Leipzig, 1907. Joerger, “Die Familie, Zero,” Arch, für Rassen u. Gesellschaftsbiologie, 1905. M. Ziermer (pseudonym), “Genealogische Studien über die Vererbung geistiger Eigenschaften,” ibid., 1908.
- ↑ For the importance of the mother, see “The Psychology of the Unconscious.” C. G. Jung. Moffart, Yard and Co., New York.
- ↑ E. Fürst, “Statistische Untersuchungen über Wortassoziationen und über familiäre Übereinstimmung im Reaktionstypus bei Ungebildeten. Beitrag der diagnostischen Assoziationsstudien herausgegeben von Dr. C. G. Jung,” Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie, Bd. II., 1907. (Reprinted in two volumes of the Joint Reports.)
