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ISBN 10: 1138777072
ISBN 13: 9781138777071
Author: Humberto Nagera
Originally published in 1970, this volume describes in condensed but detailed form Freud’s development of the theory of instincts. As is well known, Freud reformulated and amplified his theory of instincts at several points during his lifetime. Such periodical amplifications and reformulations were made necessary by a number of factors, for as Freud gained experience he not only developed fresh insights but also was faced with the problem of explaining an increasing amount of clinical phenomena that offered itself for examination under the psychoanalytic microscope. There can be no doubt that Freud considered his theory of instincts as one of the corner stones of psychoanalysis and yet at the same time he recognised that it was an area where many of his formulations were necessarily of a tentative character and open to discussion and modification. In this volume the reader will be able to follow the development of Freud’s thought from his initial discovery of the duality of ‘sexual’ and ‘ego’ instincts and his recognition of the fundamental importance of the aggressive forces in human nature and behaviour, to the formulation of his theories regarding life and death.
Table of contents:
1. Instinct and Drive
2. The Development of Freud’s Instinct Theory, 1894–1939
i. Introduction and Definition
ii. The Biological and Psychological Concepts Of Instinct
iii. The Historical Development of Instinct Theory
Phase One: 1894–1911
Phase Two: 1911–14
Phase Three: 1915–20
Phase Four: 1920–39
iv. The Instincts Within the Mental Apparatus
3. Component Instincts
4. Erotogenic Zones
5. Source, Pressure, Aim and Object of the Sexual Component Instincts
6. The Death Instinct
7. The Aggressive Drive
8. Fusion-Defusion
9. Repetition Compulsion
10. Activity-Passivity; Masculinity-Femininity
11. Masochism
12. Sadism
13. Bisexuality
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