ABSTRACT
The excommunication of psychoanalytic heretics is made easier by the characteristic nature of terminological innovation in the course of the clashes that have so often taken place. Nevertheless, in the history of modern psychotherapy Carl G. Jung pioneered in short-term treatment, and clinical concepts of his that were considered by Sigmund Freud grounds for excommunication have now, seventy-five years later, quietly found their way back into orthodox analysis. Freud invented a specialized vocabulary, and in the act of challenging him former disciples of his created a set of categories that were designed as substitutes for his formulations. Freud’s own practical politics were not particularly admirable; his support of an authoritarian Austrian regime, and his attitude toward Mussolini, ought to leave his orthodox followers uneasy. Long before orthodox analysts could see the point, Jung argued that anxieties are capable of reactivating infantile material.
