Freud Evaluated - The Completed Arc : the Completed Arc
This volume is an historically based critical evaluation of Freud's personality theory. In it the observations Freud made are described and the theoretical ideas he put forward for explaining them are set out. The adequacy of Freud's explanations are judged against the logical and scientific standards of Freud's own time. The historical perspective will give the reader a sound basis on which to make a judgement about psycho-analysis as a method of investigation and a theory of personality as well as a sense of what Freud was about from Freud's own standpoint. Freud's endeavour is sited
1 online resource (698 pages).
9780080867298, 0080867294
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Front Cover; Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Introduction; PART I: BEGINNING ASSUMPTIONS; Ch. 1 Anna O. and the origins of Freud's personality theory; Ch. 2 Charcot, hypnosis and determinism; Ch. 3 Freud, determinism and hysteria; Ch. 4 Freud's adaptation of Breuer's treatment method; Ch. 5 Causes and the actual neuroses; PART II: FIRST THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS; Ch. 6 Mechanisms of symptom formation; Ch. 7 A theory of the neuroses; Ch. 8 Expectations, actual neuroses and childhood seduction; Ch. 9 Dreams and symptoms; Ch. 10 A theory of sexuality. PART III: THE FINAL SYNTHESISCh. 11 The ego and the ego-instinctual drive; Ch. 12 The instinct theory finalized; Ch. 13 The structures of the mind; PART IV: EVALUATION; Ch. 14 Psycho-analysis as theory and therapy; Ch. 15 Psycho-analysis as a method; Ch. 16 Psycho-analysis as science; REFERENCES; INDEX; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS