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Freud’s own view on the reception of his ideas has always been that they were received in an atmosphere of hostility. Psychoanalysis was either ignored or rejected. After a period of splendid isolation, from 1904 on he recruited a small but growing group of followers who formed his only point of security in a hostile world. Later they were to form the psychoanalytic movement. Freud tended to think of late nineteenth century Sexual Morality and antisemitism as the main causes of the rejection of psychoanalysis by the medical world and the lay public. Ernest Jones, his disciple and influential biographer, did little to correct this picture of the birth and early development of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis derives nothing but disadvantages from its middle position between medicine and psychology.
Sigmund Freud
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Terwee, S.J.S. (1990). The Early Reception of Psychoanalysis: Vicissitudes of a Science of Interpretation. In: Terwee, S.J.S. (eds) Hermeneutics in Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83984-9_3
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