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CONTENTS

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AUTHOR'S NOTE xlvii


PART I

CHAPTER


INTRODUCTION 3

Relation of the Incest Phantasy to the Oedipus Legend—Moral
revulsion over such a discovery—The unity of the
antique and modern psychology—Followers of Freud in this
field—The need of analyzing historical material in relation
to individual analysis.


I.—CONCERNING THE TWO KINDS OF THINKING 8

Antiquity of the belief in dreams—Dream-meanings psychological,
not literal—They concern wish-fulfilments—A
typical dream: the sexual assault—What is symbolic in our
everyday thinking?—One kind of thinking: intensive and
deliberate, or directed—Directed thinking and thinking in
words—Origin of speech in primitive nature sounds—The
evolution of speech—Directed thinking a modern acquisition—Thinking,
not directed, a thinking in images: akin to
dreaming—Two kinds of thinking: directed and dream or
phantasy thinking—Science an expression of directed thinking—The
discipline of scholasticism as a forerunner—Antique
spirit created not science but mythology—Their world of
subjective phantasies similar to that we find in the child-*mind
of to-day; or in the savage—The dream shows a similar
type—Infantile thinking and dreams a re-echo of the
prehistoric and the ancient—The myths a mass-dream of
the people: the dream the myth of the individual—Phantastic
thinking concerns wishes—Typical cases, showing kinship
with ancient myths—Psychology of man changes but slowly—Phantastic
thinking tells us of mythical or other material
of undeveloped and no longer recognized wish tendencies
in the soul—The sexual base—The wish, because of its
disturbing nature, expressed not directly, but symbolically.


II.—THE MILLER PHANTASIES 42

Miss Miller's unusual suggestibility—Identifying herself
with others—Examples of her autosuggestibility and suggestive
effect—Not striking in themselves, but from analytic
viewpoint they afford a glance into the soul of the writer—Her
phantasies really tell of the history of her love.


III.—THE HYMN OF CREATION 49

Miss Miller's description of a sea-journey—Really a description
of "introversion"—A retreat from reality into