Part Ii. 336

Freud's case of paranoid dementia--(Schreber case)--Two ways of regarding Goethe's "Faust"--Retrospective and prospective understanding--The scientific mind thinks causally--This is but one half of comprehension--Pathological and mythological formations, both structures of the imagination--Flournoy's case--Misunderstanding of author's analysis of it--Adaptations only possible to the introverted type by means of a world-philosophy--The extroverted type always arrives at a general theory subsequently--Psychasthenia is the neurosis of introversion, hysteria of extroversion--These diseases typify the general attitude of the types to the phenomena of the external world--The extreme difference in type a great obstacle to common understanding--The general result of the constructive method is a subjective view, not a scientific theory.