ABSTRACT
Freud had to address the problem of his “school” and the transmission of his theories and practice, while Jung was building his own different school of thought that he was still calling psychoanalysis. A misunderstanding catalysed the break between the two (the “Kreutzlingen gesture”).
The Secret Committee was set up, an unofficial group of devoted analysts, analysed by Freud in order to serve as representatives for the teaching of beginners and to faithfully transmit and develop the Freudian theory.
In order to contrast himself with Jung, who was turning to ancient myths and astrology, in Totem and Taboo, Freud addressed the problem of the unconscious intelligence and of the intergenerational transmission of thought: he wrote that the psychic processes of one generation, though repressed, would leave a unconscious trace which the next generation would be able to interpret without having to acquire their own attitude to existence ex novo.
