Carl Gustav Jung

Name: Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology — Chapter VI: A Criticism of Bleuler's "Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism"
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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

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“Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology — Chapter VI: A Criticism of Bleuler's "Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism"”, published in 1916, is a work by Carl Gustav Jung. It explores elements such as complex, schizophrenia and negativism.

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Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

“ Psychoanalysis has proved conclusively that a resistance always has an intention and a meaning; that there is no such thing as a capricious playing with contrasts. The systematic character of resistance holds good, as I believe I have proved, even in schizophrenia. So long as this position, founded upon a great variety of experience, is not disproved by any other observations, the theory of negativism must adapt itself to it. ”

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Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

“ Resistance always springs from a peculiar sexual development. The latter leads in the well-known manner to conflict, i.e. to the complex. Every case of schizophrenia which has so far been analysed confirms this. It can therefore claim at least to be a working hypothesis, and one to be followed up. In the present state of our knowledge, it is therefore not easy to see why Bleuler only allows to sexuality a quasi-determining influence on the phenomena of negativism; for psychoanalysis demonstrates that the cause of negativism is resistance ”

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Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

“ This admits that negativism is of the nature of resistance. Once admit this, and the primary importance of ambivalency disappears so far as negativism is concerned. The tendency to resistance remains as the only fundamental principle. Ambivalency can in no sense be put on all fours with the “schizophrenic splitting of the psyche,” but must be regarded as a concept which gives expression to the universal and ever-present inner association of pairs of opposites. ”

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Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

“ The transition to sexuality appears from the psychoanalytical standpoint difficult to understand. If we consider that the development of resistance coincides in every case with the history of the complex we must ask ourselves: Is the complex sexual or not? ”

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Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

“ Neither is specific of schizophrenia, but applies equally to the neuroses and the normal. All that remains to katatonic negativism is the intentional contrast, i.e. the resistance. From this explanation we see that resistance is something different from ambivalency; it is the dynamic factor which makes manifest the ambivalency everywhere latent. What is characteristic of the diseased mind is not ambivalency but resistance. ”

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Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

“ The schizophrenic splitting of the psyche which prevents any final summing up of the conflicting and corresponding psychisms, so that the unsuitable impulse can be realised just as much as the right one, and the negative thought substituted for the right one. ”

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Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology… (1916)

“ Bleuler's work contains a noteworthy clinical analysis of “Negativism.” Besides giving a very precise and discerning summary of the various manifestations of negativism, the author presents us with a new psychological conception well worthy of attention, viz. the concept of ambivalency and of ambitendency, thus formulating the psychological axiom that every tendency is balanced by its opposite tendency (to this must be added that positive action is produced by a comparatively small leaning to one side of the scale) . ”

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