Research Catalog

Title

Freud's concept of passivity / Russell H. Davis.

Author

Davis, Russell H.

Publication

Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, 1991.

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Description

xv, 260 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Psychological issues ; monograph 60

Uniform Title

Psychological issues (Series) ; monograph 60.

Subjects

• Oedipus complex
• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
• Passivity (Psychology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Methods Used in This Study. Research Method. Method of Presentation. Thesis -- 2. Early Theory of Neurosis: Passive Victims. Passive/Active and the Choice of Neurosis. From Actual Trauma to Passive Psychic Reality. Why Did Freud Abandon the Seduction Theory? -- 3. Passive Aims of the Libido. Sexual Aims and Instinct Theory. Instincts and Their Vicissitudes. Are Passive Aims Always Perverse Aims? Neurosis and Perversions. Passive Aims: Developmental History -- 4. Passive Aims and the Inverted Oedipus Complex. The Inverted Oedipus Complex. The Passive Oedipus Complex. The Passive Oedipus Complex: Birth of a Concept. Precursors of the Inverted Oedipus Complex. Schreber: The Feminine Attitude. The Wolf Man. Importance of the Wolf Man Case. Confusion of Genital and Phallic Organizations -- 5. Why Freud Developed the Passive Oedipus Complex. A Little Fliess Come to Life Again. Freud's Complexes. Oral Dependence. Freud and Jung -- 6. The Conflict Between Adler and Freud.
• Adler's Theories. Freud's View of Adler and His Separation -- 7. The Development of the Concept of the Inverted Oedipus Complex as a Response to Adler's Challenge. The Wolf Man: Answer to Adler and Freud's Countertransference -- 8. Further Development of the Concept of the Inverted Oedipus Complex. The Passive Oedipus Complex and the Perversions. The Road to Ego Psychology -- 9. Religion and Passivity. Formation of Conscience. From Morality to Religion. Religion and the Primal Horde. Freud and Religion -- 10. Passive and the Feminine. Linking Passive and Feminine. Early Freud. Adler and Femininity. Mental Masculinity and Femininity Defined. The Psychology of Women and Passive Aims. Critique. The Problem of Linking Passive and Feminine -- 11. Summary and Conclusions.

ISBN

0823620328

LCCN

91009036

OCLC

• 59989002
• ocm59989002

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries