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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... mechanisms of defence 9 Freudian dream theory 10 Psychoanalytic theory of neurosis , psychosis and other emotional and psychogenic disturbances 11 The effects of psychoanalytic therapy 12 The neo - Freudians and other analytic ...
... defence mechanisms . ― Further , unlike Fisher and Greenberg ( 1977 ) , we have not attempted to include a description of every experiment reported in the journals which is or purports to be relevant to psychoanalytic theory . This ...
... mechanism of defence against the unpalatable truths it contained . As Medawar ( 1969 ) has pointed out , this is ... defence mechanisms and the contents of the unconscious as revealed in dreams . This in turn leads on to the ...
... defence mechanisms associated with the various patterns of psychosexual development ' . If therefore the scales could be shown to be valid , the psychosexual personality syndromes would be shown to exist and the first set of hypotheses ...
... defence mechanisms since id - pressure ( Q4 ) has a negative loading on it . This result is in accord with psychoanalytic theory of defence mechanisms against anal erotism repressed into the id . Construct validity study 2 A Varimax ...
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 |