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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... fact occur and , if they do , are they related to child - rearing procedures and psychosexual stages ? In the next chapter the objective evidence bearing on the first hypothesis will be considered — the evidence from personality ...
... fact that each item correlated with the total score . This , of course , indicates only that the scale was measuring a common factor , not what that factor was . Furthermore , two of the items referred to professors , e.g. ' I get ...
... fact that the scale fails to correlate with the Guilford scales is further indirect support for its validity . Furthermore , the correlation between self and peer ratings indicates that the test reflects observed behaviour and this ...
... ( 0.66 ) , pessimism ( 0.65 ) and passivity ( 0.61 ) . Parsimony and aggression failed to load on this factor . Nevertheless it was concluded that oral and anal syndromes did occur in accordance 36 Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory.
... fact that the scales load on factors , as expected , is good evidence for their validity - a different matter from illustrating that items in one scale load on one common factor which fails to show what that factor is . It is noteworthy ...
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 |