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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... fixation . Freud ( 1916-17 ) likens fixation and regression to an advancing army in enemy territory leaving occupation troops at all important points . The stronger the occupation troops left behind ( fixation ) the weaker is the army ...
... FIXATION AT OTHER PSYCHOSEXUAL LEVELS Oral and anal characteristics are far more important in psychoanalytic personality theory than characteristics derived from fixation at other levels . Jones ( 1915 and 1933 ) has described urethral ...
... fixation at various psychosexual levels . It will be clear that these descriptions and theories enable the first two hypotheses to be put to the empirical test - do such constellations of traits in fact occur and , if they do , are they ...
... fixation at psychosexual phases . Stagner and Moffitt ( 1956 ) claim that the behaviour due to fixation is extremely restricted in nature with little generalization . However , the weakness of the argument is in the data . — Since the ...
... fixation at the phallic level . A descriptive list of the thirty - three variables is set out in Table 3.1 . TABLE 3.1 . The DPI scales H Hypocrisy : self - satisfaction with own moral standards , lack of insight Wp Passivity : liking ...
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 |