![]() But such an art cannot be generally assumed its efficiency is immune from criticism, and its results have therefore no claim to credibility. Stekel found his symbolic meanings by way of intuition, by virtue of his individual faculty of immediately understanding the symbols. For the examples upon which he based his interpretations were often unconvincing, and, moreover, he employed a method which must be rejected as scientifically unreliable. Stekel's services are in no way belittled by the remark that the sceptical reserve with which these symbols were received was not unjustified. This author, who has perhaps injured psychoanalysis as much as he has benefited it, produced a large number of novel symbolic translations, to which no credence was given at first, but most of which were later confirmed and had to be accepted. ![]() Stekel, concerning which I may here fittingly say something. ![]() But it was only little by little that I arrived at a full appreciation of its extent and significance, as the result of increasing experience, and under the influence of the works of W. ![]() Representation in Dreams by Symbols: Some Further Typical Dreams - The analysis of the last biographical dream shows that I recognized the symbolism in dreams from the very outset. ![]()
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