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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... reliability of the analyst's memory . CONSTRUCTS Many of the constructs in psychoanalytic theory are vague and difficult to relate to any external referent : for example , the concepts of eros and thanatos , the life and death instincts ...
... Reliability Hatred of waste ( iii ) Sublimation of the impulse to give ( not part of the anal character but useful for finding what anals are not ) ( iv ) Reaction - formation of the impulse to give ( strictly not part of the anal ...
... reliability of the factor - analysis must be in doubt . As with the previous investigation , there is no evidence for the validity of the scales except face - validity and no checks against response - sets . Furthermore , the reliability ...
... Reliability Split - half reliabilities for such short scales were very high all between 0.89 and 0.98 . Inter - scale correlations were low , showing that the sub - tests were independent and that acquiescence could not be a major ...
... reliability of the ratings of personality used as external criteria are unknown , so that no firm conclusions can be drawn . At most it could be argued that some of the correlations ( e.g. independence and ' strong personality ' ) are ...
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 |