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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... predicted , e.g. oral dependent and oral sadistic , anal expulsive and anal retentive , and , if the item writing were sufficiently sensitive , urethral and phallic factors . From the orthogonal rotation of the centroid analysis ...
... predicting other personality traits . Comments 1. The typology suggested by Stagner does not seem implicit in Freudian theory . The anal character may be legitimately regarded , in theory , as the extreme of a continuum just as is the ...
... predicting other traits of personality . Conclusions It does not appear that the conclusions drawn by Stagner are supported by the data . On the other hand these findings do not support psychosexual theory but are , rather , irrelevant ...
... predict external life - critera . On these grounds as the handbook to his tests and the whole corpus of Cattell's work indicates ( summarized in Cattell and Kline , 1977 ) Cattell's factors do meet these criteria . Guilford's factors ...
... predicted from the theory . There seems to be no room for three . Nor is the bipolarity of orality and anality expected since , as Abraham ( 1921 ) points out , oral and anal fixations are often related . To argue that this factor ...
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 |