Death Instinct

Paperback. 11,00 / 18,20 cm. In English. 109 p. The study of dreams may be regarded as the most trustworthy approach to the explo-rati­on of the deeper psychic processes. Now in the traumatic neuroses the dream life has this it continually takes the patient back to the situation of his disaster, from which he awakens in renewed terror. This fact has caused less surprise than it merits. The obtru-sion on the patient over and again, even in sleep, of the impression made by the traumatic experience is taken as being merely a proof of its strength. The patient has so to speak under-gone a psychi­cal fixation as to the trauma.