Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory (RLE: Freud)Originally published in 1972, this second edition in 1981 was fully revised and updated to cover recent developments in the field at the time. Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory was written to answer many questions and criticisms surrounding psychoanalysis. How much, if any, of Freudian theory is verifiable according to the usual criteria of scientific enquiry? Much work had been carried out at the time to discover which parts of Freudian theory are verifiable and which insupportable by experiment. In this book Dr Kline surveys this vast body of work. He takes, one by one, the central postulates of Freudian psychology and discusses the experiments which have been performed to test them. He scrutinizes each test, examines its methodology and its findings and weighs up its value. For some of the theories, it will be seen, there is no evidence whatsoever; for others, on the other hand, there is impressive and sometimes incontrovertible experimental support – for example, for the theory of repression. This work will continue to be an invaluable, highly detailed reference work for those involved with Freud’s work, and a book of great interest to those concerned with the method of psychological enquiry in general. |
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... confirmed or , at least , could be confirmed by objective , scientific , psychological research . In short , to establish psychoanalysis as a true science . This is necessary because Freudian theory , so far as it is dependent on data ...
... confirm . The problem is to know what observations would confirm or refute the theory . Does , for example , frequent thumb - sucking , as Freud ( 1905a ) supposes , constitute evidence for the mouth being an erotogenic zone ? These ...
... confirm or refute these hypotheses will be reviewed in a later chapter . THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE Clinical studies of small numbers of individuals are inherently irrelevant to the Freudian hypotheses . By the laws of probability ...
... confirmation of an anal or obsessional personality , as far as is possible without other marker variables to ... confirm the psychoanalytic psychosexual hypotheses of the anal or oral character . The best that may be adduced is ...
... confirmation for other psychosexual syndromes . We must stress , however , that this is not a condemnation of the ... confirms the existence of the anal character but not the other psychosexual syndromes . Before leaving the DPI to ...
Contents
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4 Psychometric studies of personality | 48 |
5 The relation of psychosexual personality syndromes to infantile experiences | 68 |
6 The Oedipus and castration complexes | 130 |
7 The structure of the mind | 169 |
8 The mechanisms of defence | 195 |
10 Psychoanalytic theory of neurosis psychosis and other emotional and psychogenic disturbances | 325 |
11 The effects of psychoanalytic therapy | 389 |
12 The neoFreudians and other analytic psychologists | 407 |
13 The status of Freudian theory in the light of the evidence | 432 |
Bibliography | 448 |
Name index | 495 |
General index | 505 |
9 Freudian dream theory | 263 |