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The Three Essays underwent a series of rewritings and additions over a twenty-year succession of editions [11] —changes which expanded its size by one half, from 80 to 120 pages. [12] The sections on the sexual theories of children and on pregenitality only appeared in 1915, for example, [ 13 ] while such central terms as castration complex ...
Freud had a lot of data as evidence for the seduction theory, but rather than presenting the actual data on which he based his conclusions (his clinical cases and what he had learned from them) or the methods he used to acquire the data (his psychoanalytic technique), he instead addressed only the evidence that the data he reportedly acquired were accurate (that he had discovered genuine abuse).
Freud described as the 'Exceptions' those who because of early narcissistic injury felt that they were subsequently entitled to special privileges in life, in ongoing compensation. [1] His description has been extended to include an early sadomasochism in the experience of being victimised.
Subsequent psychoanalysts interested in ego psychology emphasized the importance of early-childhood experiences and socio-cultural influences on ego development. René Spitz (1965), Margaret Mahler (1968), Edith Jacobson (1964), and Erik Erikson studied infant and child behavior, and their observations were integrated into ego psychology.
Freud saw the aesthetic principle as the ability to turn the private phantasy into a public artefact, using artistic pleasure to release a deeper pleasure founded on the release of forbidden (unconscious) material. [6] The process allowed the writer him/herself to emerge from their introversion and return to the public world. [7]
[4] [5] Furthermore, the importance of parent work in the context of child psychoanalysis has been emphasized. [6] Short-term psychoanalytic therapy which combines focus oriented techniques in the psychoanalytic work with the child with focused parent work [ 7 ] has been shown to be effective especially in children with anxiety disorders and ...
Freud's theories on early childhood have been influential on the psychological community; the phrase anal retentive and the term anal survive in common usage. The second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-II) introduced obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), with a definition based on Freud's description of anal-retentive personality. [5]
The psychoanalytic theory came to full prominence in the last third of the twentieth century as part of the flow of critical discourse regarding psychological treatments after the 1960s, long after Freud's death in 1939. [1] Freud had ceased his analysis of the brain and his physiological studies and shifted his focus to the study of the psyche ...