Inpsychoanalytictreatment,however,theassociation—experimentenablesonetomakeonlyapreliminary,qualitativeanalysisofthecase,itoffersnoessentialcontributiontothetechnique,andisreallynotindispensableintheworkofanalysis。Ofmoreimportance,however,wasanotherdiscoveryoftheZü;richSchool,orrather,ofitstwoleaders,BleulerandJung。
Theformerpointedoutthatagreatmanypurelypsychiatriccasescanbeexplainedbythesamepsychoanalyticprocessasthoseusedindreamsandintheneuroses(FreudscheMechanismen)。Jungemployedwithsuccesstheanalyticmethodofinterpretationinthestrangestandmostobscurephenomenaofdementiapræ;cox,theoriginofwhichappearedquiteclearwhencorrelatedwiththelifeandinterestsofthepatient。Fromthattimeonitbecameimpossibleforthepsychiatriststoignorepsychoanalysis。Bleuler’sgreatworkonSchizophrenie[sic](1911),inwhichthepsychoanalyticpointsofviewareplacedonanequalfootingwiththeclinical—systematicones,broughtthissuccesstocompletion。
Imustnotomittopointoutadivergencewhichwasthenalready[p。
21]distinctlynoticeableintheworkingtendenciesofthetwoschools。
Alreadyin1897Ihadpublishedtheanalysisofacaseofschizophrenia,whichshowed,however,paranoidtrends,sothatitssolutioncouldnothaveanticipatedtheimpressionofJung’sanalyses。Buttometheimportantelementhadnotbeentheinterpretationofthesymptoms,butratherthepsychicmechanismsofthedisease,andaboveall,theagreementofthismechanismwiththeonealreadyknowninhysteria。Nolighthadbeenthrownatthattimeonthedifferencebetweenthesetwomaladies。Iwasthenalreadyworkingtowardatheoryofthelibidointheneuroseswhichwastoexplainallneuroticaswellaspsychoticappearancesonthebasisofabnormaldriftsofthelibido。TheSwissinvestigatorslackedthispointofview。