The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences
The book The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences was written by author Rank, Otto, 1884-1939 Here you can read free online of The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences a good or bad book?
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For the child, the joining together of articu- lated sounds, which it little by little learns to control, is some- thing independent, which the child prefers to distinguish from the things denoted, since he may much easier subject these sounds to his own will than the things themselves. The child is, therefore, inclined to misunderstand the connection between a thing and its name, which it cannot quite grasp intellectually, so that he takes the name for the thing, regarding it as a substitute f...or the thing itself. Something similar we find among primitive men, who are of the opinion that one has a certain power over a thing if one knows its name. On this rests the inclination to euphemism, namely, among names of people and names of places ; numerous remains of this belief occur in myths and legends. It is a result of this error that in childish and also in primi- tive thought the assumption prevails that to the similarity of name a material connection must also correspond. The clang association, in this stage of mentality, easily takes the place of *8 According to Gerber (Die Sprache der Kunst, 1885) the roots were created in the stage of unconscious symbolism.
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