dementia praecox

So back at the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century, there was no schizophrenia anywhere ever 'cause the term hadn't been invented yet.

And a guy named Eugen Bleuler wrote a book in 1906, 8, somewhere in there, called Dementia Praecox or The Group of Schizophrenias.

So the idea was very much it's a form of dementia.

Praecox means it starts early in life, but it doesn't really look anything like dementia.

Dementia praecox evolved into schizophrenia.

And what was the d- which schizophrenia means split mind, so split mind disorder is what schizophrenia says.

So what's the difference between split mind disorder and DID? Very murky.

The Freudians would be wrong not to listen to the voice of criticism which reproaches our conception of libido with mysticism and inaccessibility.

We deceived ourselves in believing that we could ever make the libido sexualis, the bearer of the energetic conception of the psychical life, and if many of freud's school still believe they possess a well-defined and almost complete conception of libido they are not aware that this conception has been put to use far beyond the bounds of its sexual definition the critics are right when they object to our theory of libido as explaining things which cannot belong to its sphere it must be admitted that freud's school makes use of a conception of libido which passes beyond the bounds of its primary definition indeed this must produce the impression that one is working with a mystical principle the problem of libido and dementia precox.

I have sought to show these infringements in a special work, Wandlungen und Symbol der Libido, and at the same time the necessity for creating a new conception of libido which shall be in harmony with the energic conception.

Freud himself was forced to a discussion of his original conception of libido when he tried to apply its energic point of view to a well-known case of dementia precox, the so-called Schreber case.

in this case we had to deal among other things with that well-known problem in the psychology of dementia praecox the loss of adaptation to reality the peculiar phenomenon consisting in a special tendency of these patients to construct an inner world of fantasy of their own surrendering for this purpose their adaptation to reality As a part of the phenomenon, the lack of sociability or emotional rapport will be well known to you all, this representing a striking disturbance of the function of reality.

Through considerable psychological study of these patients, we discovered that this lack of adaptation to reality is compensated by a progressive increase in the creation of fantasies.

In his article on Schreber, he discusses the question whether what the psychoanalytic school calls libido and conceives of as interest from erotic sources coincides with interest generally speaking.

You see that putting the problem in this way, Freud asked the question which Klepper-Retta practically answered.