From Freud to Feminist Personality Theory: Getting Here from There
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- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Vol. 10 (1) , 1-18
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1986.tb00733.x
Abstract
After a discussion of the impact of psychoanalysis on psychological thinking about personality theory and the changes that have been taking place within psychoanalytic theory about women, eight criteria arising out of feminist therapy theory are stated. These criteria represent suggested minimum conditions that a woman-based theory of female development and personality needs to fulfill. Freudian theory, current psychoanalytic theory, and several feminist theories are then evaluated in light of the stated criteria. The author concludes that feminists have arrived at some degree of general agreement about personality theory, although they have often arrived at their specific approaches via diverse theoretical routes.Keywords
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