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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... male students , median age twenty - three years . These subjects had also completed the GuilfordZimmerman Temperament Survey , the scores from which were used as markers to identify the factors emerging from the tetrachoric inter ...
... analysis ) from each scale of KPPS and then subjected the inter - item correlation to an oblique ( Quartimax ) factor - analysis on a sample of 200 male and The objective evidence concerning psychosexual personality syndromes 17.
Paul Kline. factor - analysis on a sample of 200 male and 200 female students . Although ten factors emerged , as would be expected from the low inter - correlations of the scales , the pregenital scales , which are of closest relevance ...
... male architectural students . Orthogonal Varimax and oblique Direct Oblimin rotations were performed using different numbers of factors in the rotations to compare the different results . Technically , it can be seen , this first study ...
... male and one female , of asthmatics , allergic but non - asthmatic patients and controls of chronic inpatients . For each sample eight factors were rotated to the Varimax orthogonal criterion . Despite the failure to reach simple ...
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 |