Freudian repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition

Freudian repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition
Author: Simon Boag
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429914024

Possibly no other psychoanalytic concept has caused as much ongoing controversy, and attracted so much criticism, as that of 'repression'. Repression involves denying knowledge to oneself about the content of one's own mind and is most commonly implicated in disputes concerning the possibility of repressed memories of trauma (and their subsequent recovery). While fundamental in Freudian psychoanalysis, recent developments in psychoanalytic thinking (e.g., 'mentalization') have downplayed the importance of repression, in part due to less emphasis being placed on the importance of memory within therapy.

Freudian Repression

Freudian Repression
Author: Michael Billig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1999-11-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521659567

This book presents a reinterpretation of Freud to show how language can be expressive and repressive.

The Repression of Psychoanalysis

The Repression of Psychoanalysis
Author: Russell Jacoby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1986-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0226390691

By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigrés that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of classical analysis and the efforts of the Fenichel group to preserve psychoanalysis as a social and political theory, open to a broad range of intellectuals regardless of their medical background. In tracing this effort, he illuminates the repression by psychoanalysis of its own radical past and its transformation into a narrow medical technique. This book is of critical interest to the general reader as well as to psychoanalytic historians, theorists, and therapists.

What Freud Really Meant

What Freud Really Meant
Author: Susan Sugarman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107116392

This book presents Freud's theory of the mind as an organic whole, built from first principles and developing in sophistication over time.

Thought Suppression

Thought Suppression
Author: Eric Rassin
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2005-10-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0080461182

Is it possible to ban unwanted thoughts from consciousness? According to the literature on thought suppression, the answer is no. In the 1980s, Wegner and colleges demonstrated that the average person cannot prevent a trivial thought like that of a polar bear from entering consciousness approximately seven times in a five minute period. This experimental finding was followed by a substantial number of replications. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the thought suppression literature. First, similarities and differences between suppression, repression, and dissociation are discussed. Methodological issues are then considered. Finally, the clinical applications of the thought suppression literature are discussed. Although there are numerous conditions to which the phenomenon of suppression can be applied, obsession and traumatic recollection are the main applications. In addition to offering an overview of the literature, this book links the thought suppression paradigm to other research fields, such as directed forgetting and repressive coping. Furthermore, it discusses the phenomenon of thought suppression in the light of broader theories such as the cognitive theory of obsession, and the ego depletion hypothesis. Clinical implications and directions for future research are offered.

Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory (RLE: Freud)

Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory (RLE: Freud)
Author: Paul Kline
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317975952

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.

Freud Or Jung

Freud Or Jung
Author: Edward Glover
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1991
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780810109049

One of the great dramatic events in the history of twentieth-century thought was the break of Carl Jung--the crown prince of the psychoanalytic movement--with his mentor and collaborator Sigmund Freud. After the "gladiatorial phase" of the debate between the Freudians and Jungians had passed, British psychoanalyst Edward Glover began serious consideration of the ideas of Jung. Glover's study was immediately recognized as the major Freudian statement on Jung's psychology and was even cited by later Jungians for its trenchant criticisms. This new edition of the unsurpassed classic will make it available for another generation of students, practitioners, and intellectual historians.

The Foundations of Psychoanalysis

The Foundations of Psychoanalysis
Author: Adolf Grunbaum
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1985-12-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520907329

This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science. It shows that the reasoning on which Freud rested the major hypotheses of his edifice was fundamentally flawed, even if the probity of the clinical observations he adduced were not in question. Moreover, far from deserving to be taken at face value, clinical data from the psychoanalytic treatment setting are themselves epistemically quite suspect.

Sex and Repression in Savage Society

Sex and Repression in Savage Society
Author: Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sex and Repression in Savage Society" by Bronislaw Malinowski. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.