Freud and Kardec

Many psychologists and psychiatrists accuse Spiritism of invading their scientific domains in the cases of mental and psychic disturbances. Being unaware of the Spiritist Doctrine and its history, they do not realize that exactly the contrary is occurring. They affirm that obsession is a decurrent disturbance of endogenous imbalances, that is to say, of the proper psychic-mental structures of the patient in relation with ambient factors. They attribute almost everything to the constitution of the patient, the organic and particularly cerebral or emotional disturbances. The subconscious is generally the source of all the psychic riots. They understand that spiritists confuse the imaginary ghosts generated by pathological manifestations of the patient with genuine ghosts of the oldest magical and religious superstitions of Humanity. They believe Spiritism to be a process of return to the world of superstition.

Freud was only one year old when Kardec raised the problem of the subconscious in scientific terms, in his research on spiritist phenomena, today scientifically called as paranormal. Kardec went deeper into the subject than did Freud, reaching the problem of the individual and collective archetypes that only Adler and Jung would research later. In researching the problem of animism in the

mediumistic manifestations and of psychic infiltrations in real manifestations, Kardec duly accentuated the importance of the manifestations of the subconscious in the individual and in collective behavior. Freud faced the question of the dreams in the limits of his doctrine. Kardec, in twelve years, had already achieved intensive research of experimental psychology (the absolute pioneer in this field) in the Paris Society of Spiritist Study. Today, the parapsychological research, carried out in the most renowned universities throughout the world, proves the correctness

of Kardec.

We give this historical information solely so that the victims of obsessions and their relatives responsible for them are not carried away by fatal deceits in difficult cases of obsession. The Spiritist Science is not opposed to the Material

Sciences in any field, but rather, it tries to assist them with the necessary complementation of their research and through proper accomplishments. It is easy to verify the truth of this information by consulting the work of Kardec, including the documentations on obsessions and disobsessions in his works published in the collection of the “Revue Spirite” (Spiritist Magazine), today entirely translated and published in our language

From The book "Obsession" by Jose Herculano Pires -  Translated by Jussara Korngold & Marie Levinson