The present state of psychoanalytic theory.
- 1 January 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 58 (1) , 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0043381
Abstract
Present psychoanalytic theory includes emphasis on: the structural (id-ego-superego) in addition to the topographic (unconscious-conscious) point of view extrapsychic (social, interpersonal) factors, functionally autonomous drives (rather than an automatic and complete dependence on instinctual motivation), awareness of adaptive (learned) and cognitive (secondary process) aspects, in addition to the infantile sexual (primary process) roots of behavior.Keywords
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- The Problem of Ego IdentityJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1956