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The psychoanalytic perspective of adolescent homosexuality: a review.
Psychoanalytic theory asserts that adolescent homosexuality is the result of unresolved infantile conflict experienced during the Oedipal and pre-Oedipal periods, in which inadequate object relations and identifications with parents predispose the individual to homosexuality in adolescence. Classical psychoanalytic thought emphasizes the importance of drives and defenses in the formation of homosexuality, while more contemporary approaches understand adolescent homosexuality from a psychosocial and early developmental perspective. In addition to childhood predispositions, the various developmental tasks of adolescence influence the degree and course of homosexuality. This article notes the different types of homosexuality that emerge in adolescence which are influenced by different psychodynamic conditions in each stage of adolescence. Changing developmental roles in relation to individuation, object relations, identification, and identity formation are a few of the factors that contribute to adolescent homosexuality.
[Separation--aloneness--departure as steps in female development from the psychoanalytic viewpoint].
Discussed here is the necessity of an inner process of separation from a maternal provider of care and the mother as a first oedipal object of love for the nonpathological early development of the young girl. The process of separation is bound up with necessary and intense reactions of disappointment in the mother and a destabilization of the young girl's feelings of her own value. It thus bears with it a threat of regression that could result in a fixation on the mother. Two such patterns of fixation, one of "compensation model" and the other the "providing of care model", are discussed. On the other hand, attention is also given to the progressive possibilities for coming to terms with the crisis in the relationship and the feelings of her own worth in the young girl. These possibilities are to be found in the young girl's decisive turning away from the mother in order to form her own identity by mobilizing and developing her own resources. This by no means implies an immediate turn to the father. First of all, this new object of love is already taken by the mother, and secondly, the girl wants to feel strong, not weak, in approaching him and must therefore keep him at a distance.
Analysis of a woman's homosexual strivings by a male analyst.
Clinical material is presented describing how analysis of the homosexual aspects of a woman patient's transference to a male analyst unfolded. Comparison and contrast is made to previous case reports and discussions of the impact of the analyst's actual gender on analytic work.
The concept of a transference neurosis and psychoanalytic methodology.
Implicit in Freud's definition of transference neurosis is the valuable concept that evolution in the observable form of a patient's transference can be used as a criterion of analytic progress. Problems have arisen because the concept has been misapplied. Freud and those who followed him focused attention on clinical developments that are not in fact indicators that successful analytic work has taken place. It is suggested that transference neurosis be identified in terms of a different set of clinical observations than is usually used. Emphasis is given to evolution in the form of the analyst's activity, as well as the patient's, when analytic progress occurs. Validly applied, the concept of transference neurosis can provide a dependent variable whose appearance or non-appearance enables the testing of hypotheses about the psychoanalysis of neurotic patients.
Freud, Fliess, and the parenthood of psychoanalysis.
This paper focuses upon the roles of procreation, fatherhood, and identification with the fertile mother in Freud's creation of psychoanalysis. Fatherhood and motherhood, pregnancy and birth, children and siblings, figure prominently in Freud's self-analysis and in his relationship with his prototransference object, Wilhelm Fliess. Although Freud attributed his self-analytic interest and revived oedipal conflict to the death of his father, becoming a parent himself was also a significant determinant. Birth as well as death reactivated his childhood and stimulated his creative ferment.
A psychoanalysis of sports.
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Twenty-five years and thirty days.
One can imagine the history of psychoanalytic literary criticism (like psychoanalysis itself) as three phases, each enlarging and including the previous one: a classical phase that studied the oedipal conflicts of literary figures; an ego psychology that addressed literary structures; now, a psychology of the self that uses associations to unfold and deepen one's relations to literature. Psychoanalytic criticism used to be disdained in literary circles, but has become highly fashionable, for today other kinds of criticism also use associations. They do not acknowledge the critic's self or countertransference, however, and their psychoanalysis is not the clinician's.
A psychoanalytic view of homosexuality: an interview with Joseph J. Geller. M.D.
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The monster in the bone-house: Beowulf.
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Oedipal politics and scientific creativity. Freud's 1915 phylogenetic fantasy.
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The role of the father in infant and pre-oedipal development: a review of literature.
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The shame of Hamlet and Oedipus.
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Contemporary issues in the theory of therapy.
I have drawn comparisons of psychoanalysis as a process and as a treatment between 1954 and 1979. I have selected for discussion controversies centering on the subjects of transference versus reconstruction, oedipal versus preoedipal, and the cognitive-affective duality. Also considered were the quantitative factors in the negative therapeutic reaction, the fate of signal anxiety, and the role of the patient in the process of cure.
[Psychosocial factors in the development of anorexia nervosa].
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[On the way to a pre-oedipal society].
A quarter of a century after the publication of A. Mitscherlichs "Society without father" we have to state that his diagnosis should be extended and specified based upon a critical look at the moral theory of A. MacIntyre and the feminist anthropology of E. Badinter the thesis is developed that the decay of patriarchal social structures is connected with a regression towards a pre-oedipal society.
[Eve and Adam--is a partnership between the male and female actually possible?].
Whereas the girl can pattern the formation of her post-oedipal gender-typical selfrepresentation on the model of her mother, the boy must give up the maternal object and turn to the father. The author believes that the reorientation consumes energy which the boy lacks when forming his ego structures, his frustration tolerance, his capacity for relationships. This deficit model is invoked to explain the commonly deplored typically male behavioral and attitudinal characteristics.