I've had another go at tracing the iceberg analogy in Freud's writings, but with no success. Numerous websites quote Freud in the same words: "The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water." But not one of them gives a reference, though a couple give (different) dates, neither of which enabled me to trace it. Is this another of those quotes that Stephen Black can chalk up as apocryphal?
But as I already noted, we do have a definite reference for Fechner's use of the analogy, with nine-tenths of the iceberg under the water rather than six-sevenths. Ernest Jones gives it as: G. T. Fechner (1860), Elemente der Psychophysik, Bd. II. p. 521. D. P. Schultz and S. E. Schultz (*A History of Modern Psychology*) also cite the same book of Fechner's for the analogy: http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~jem/courses/history/s&s13.html Antecedent Influences on Psychoanalysis Gustav Fechner iceberg analogy much of mind is unconscious mind is influenced by unobservable forces 1860: Elements of Psychophysics Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org/ http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 http://www.srmhp.org/0202/review-01.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=18 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=195 --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
