Classic Audiobook Collection - Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by Carl Gustav Jung ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Starting point is 00:00:00 Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, translated by Constance Ellen Long, 1867 to 1923, Chapter 1, on the psychology and pathology of so-called occult phenomena. In that wide field of psychopathic deficiency, where science has demarcated the diseases of epilepsy, hysteria, and neurasthenia, we meet scattered observations concerning certain rare states of consciousness as to whose meaning authors are not yet agreed. These observations spring up sporadically in the literature on narcolepsy, lethargy, automatism, ambulatory, periodic amnesia, double consciousness, somnambulism, pathological dreamy states, pathological lying, etc.

Starting point is 00:00:47 These states are sometimes attributed to epilepsy, sometimes to hysteria, sometimes to exhaustion of the nervous system or neurasthenia, sometimes they are allowed all the dignity of a disease sweet generis. Patients occasionally work through a whole graduated scale of diagnoses, from epilepsy through hysteria up to simulation. In practice, on the one hand, these conditions can only be separated with great difficulty from the so-called neuroses, sometimes even are indistinguishable from them.

Starting point is 00:01:20 On the other, certain features in the region of pathological deficiency present more than a mere analogical relationship, not only with phenomena of normal psychology, but also with a psychology of the supernormal, of genius. Various as are the individual phenomena in this region, there is certainly no case that cannot be connected by some intermediate example with other typical cases. This relationship in the pictures presented by hysteria and epilepsy is very close. Recently, the view has even been maintained that there is no clean, cut frontier between epilepsy and hysteria, and that a difference is only to be noted in extreme cases.

Starting point is 00:02:01 Stephens says, for example, quote, we are forced to the conclusion that in essence hysteria and epilepsy are not fundamentally different, that the cause of the disease is the same, but is manifest in a diverse form, in different intensity and permanence, end quote. The demarcation of hysteria and certain borderline cases of epilepsy, from congenital and acquired psychopathic mental deficiency likewise presents the greatest difficulties. The symptoms of one or the other disease everywhere invade the neighboring realm, so violence is done to the facts when they are split off and considered as belonging to one or other realm. The demarcation of psychopathic mental deficiency from the normal is an absolutely

Starting point is 00:02:46 impossible task. The difference is everywhere only more or less. The classification in the region mental deficiency itself is confronted by the same difficulty. At best, certain classes can be separated off, which crystallize round some well-marked nucleus through having peculiarly typical features. Turning away from the two large groups of intellectual and emotional deficiency, there remain these deficiency colored preeminently by hysteria or epilepsy, elleptoid, or neurasthenia, which are not notably deficiency of the intellect or of feeling. It is essentially in this region, insusceptible of any absolute classification, that the above-named conditions play their part. As is well known, they can appear as part manifestations of a typical epilepsy

Starting point is 00:03:35 or hysteria, or can exist separately in the realm of psychopathic mental deficiency, where their qualifications of epileptic or hysterical are often due to the non-essential accessory features. It is thus the rule to place somnambolism among hysterical diseases, because it is occasionally a phenomenon of severe hysteria, or because mild, so-called hysterical symptoms may accompany it. B'nai says, there is no somnambolism, a nervous state that is always the same. There are somnambulisms. As one of the manifestations of a severe hysteria, somnambulism is not an unknown phenomenon, but as a pathological entity, as a disease Svigeneris, it must be somewhat rare to judge by its infrequency in German literature.

Starting point is 00:04:23 on the subject. So-called spontaneous somnambulism resting upon a foundation of hysterically tinged psychopathic deficiency is not a very common occurrence, and it is worthwhile to devote closer study to these cases, for they occasionally present a mass of interesting particulars. Case of Miss Elise K. Aged 40, single, bookkeeper in a large business, no hereditary taint, except that it is alleged a brother became slightly nervous after family misfortune and illness. Well-educated, of a cheerful, joyous nature, not of a saving disposition, always occupied with some big idea. She was very kind-hearted and gentle, did a great deal both for her parents, who were living in very modest circumstances, and for strangers. Nevertheless, she was not happy

Starting point is 00:05:13 because she thought she did not understand herself. She had always enjoyed good health till a few years ago, when she is said to have been treated for dilation of the stomach and tapeworm. During this illness, her hair became rapidly white. Later, she had typhoid fever. An engagement was terminated by the death of her fiancée from paralysis. She had been very nervous for a year and a half. In the summer of 1897, she went away for change of air and treatment by hydropathy. She herself says that for about a years she has had moments during work when her thoughts seem to stand still, but she does not fall asleep. Nevertheless, she makes no mistakes in the accounts at such times. She's often been to the wrong street and then suddenly noticed that she was not in the right place. She has had no giddiness or attacks

Starting point is 00:05:59 of fainting. Formerly menstruation occurred regularly every four weeks and without any pain. But since she has been nervous and overworked, it has come every 14 days. For a long time, she has suffered from constant headache. As accountant and bookkeeper in a large establishment, the patient has had very strenuous work, which she performs well and conscientiously. In addition to the strenuous character of her work, in the last year she had various new worries. Her brother

Classic Audiobook Collection - Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by Carl Gustav Jung ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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