Freud and Modern Psychology - Volume 1: The Emotional Basis of Mental Illness (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)

The tension between Freud's clinical discoveries about the power of human emotions and the theoretical framework in which he embedded these discoveries has been most eloquently detailed by Freud himself. His agoniz ing reappraisal. in 1926, of the libido theory of anxiety is just one example. But, as is usually the case, theoretical difficulties point to gaps in existing knowledge. At the time when Freud made his fundamental discovery that hysterical symptoms (and dreams) were understandable as reflections of for bidden ("strangulated") affect, anthropology was essentially nonexistent as a science. The cultural nature of human beings (our species' unique adaptation to life) could only be adumbrated by Freud (for example, in the myth of Totem and Taboo). As a consequence, the primacy of human attachment emotions in the acculturation process could not be postulated as a theoretical base. What Freud adopted as his base of theorizing was the most forward looking materialist concept of his time: the Darwinian concept of individual instincts as the driving force in life. Freud assumed that the vicissitudes of in stincts determine the fate of "ideas" in consciousness. Freud's theoretical base thus impelled him to speculate about the origin and fate of ideas instead of about the origin and fate of human emotional connectedness. This book is a small step along the road which should ultimately bring Freud's discoveries into a modem theoretical framework in psychology.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy, 1
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	1981
Authors:	Helen Lewis
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	247
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
ISBN-13:	978-1-4684-3814-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Criminal or forensic psychology Promotions
LSN:	1-4684-3814-X
Barcode:	9781468438147

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