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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving?

30 Jul 2009 In this paper the author explores situations when a patient seems to regress masochistically from a progressive development. She is concerned with moments when the patient's struggle towards oedipal relating may be easily confused with a situation ... Read more...

Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide.

30 Jul 2009 One of Bion's most unique contributions to psychoanalysis is his conception of dreaming in which he elaborates, modifies, and extends Freud 's ideas. While Freud dealt extensively with dream-work, he showed more interest in dreams themselves and ... Read more...

Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex.

30 Jul 2009 This paper recovers the notion of the sacrifice of sexuality as the central, tragic, element of the oedipal structure. This notion has been largely abandoned in the psychoanalytic literature that has tended to reduce the oedipal structure to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Freudian Theory'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• On: Life and death in Freudian metapsychology. 30 Jul 2009
• Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving? 30 Jul 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• Freud's Botanical Monograph screen memory revisited. 30 Jul 2009
• The need not to believe: Freud's godlessness reconsidered. 30 Jul 2009
• The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal. 21 Jul 2009
• [Borderline personality disorder, a pseudo structure?] 29 Jun 2009
• Commentary on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Freud's technique: more from experience than theory. 29 Jun 2009
• Comments on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Discussion of Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Freud, transference, and therapeutic action. 29 Jun 2009
• Payment as perverse defense. 29 Jun 2009
• The internal obstructive object in the analysis of a woman who envies her rapist. 29 Jun 2009
• Freud's Rat Man from the perspective of an early-life variant of the Oedipus complex. 29 Jun 2009
• Little Hans: masculinity foretold. 29 Jun 2009
• Studying the interpretation of dreams in the company of analytic candidates. 23 Jun 2009
• "After a long pause": how to read Dora as history. 13 Jun 2009
• What is a "good enough" termination? 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Freudian Theory'

Definition: Philosophic formulations which are basic to psychoanalysis. Some of the conceptual theories developed were of the libido, repression, regression, transference, id, ego, superego, Oedipus Complex, etc.

Descriptor UI: D005619

Alternative terms: Freudian Theory; Theory, Freudian;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: F02.739.794.297;

Online Note: search PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY 1969-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY 1975-90

Technical Notes: IM