Freuds historiske betydning

Abstract

Freud stood behind a scientific revolution of psychology, but he did not create a work of perfection, and his historical position consequently is dependent on, how his successors continue his project. In the first part of the article the alternation of generations inside psychoanalysis is evaluated, especially the one prepared by Freud himself, and the conclusion is that he
demonstrated his fatherly severity only against those pupils, who tried to score a profit through an ill-timed clarification and simplification of important psychoanalytic concepts. In the second part the major psychoanalytic borderlines are enumerated, i.e. the national, the organisational and the scientific, and in the third part some general lines are drawn up to decide how
psychoanalysis can be carried on on a Freudian basis, without metapsychology and applied psychoanalysis being abandoned.