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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... questionnaire items . Items apparently pertaining to various levels of psychosexuality were given to a sample of 266 male students , median age twenty - three years . These subjects had also completed the GuilfordZimmerman Temperament ...
... Questionnaire items were constructed from a search of the psychoanalytic descriptions of the anal character and administered to a sample of just over 100 students . The item inter - correlations were factor - analysed and a general ...
... questionnaire items were written from a study of the psychoanalytic literature and subjected to item - analysis ... questionnaires . There was good agreement in both cases , especially so for the anal character . This study at ...
... questionnaire was constructed . The oral items were mostly the same as those used by Goldman - Eisler ( 1948 , 1950 and 1951 ) . The oral character was measured by seven traits - pessimism , passivity , oral aggression , rejection of ...
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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 |