Freud and Modern Psychology Volume 1: The Emotional Basis of Mental
The tension between Freud's clinical discoveries about the power of human emotions and the theoretical framework in which he embedded these discoveries has been most eloquently detailed by Freud himself. His agoniz ing reappraisal. in 1926, of the libido
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MODERN PSYCHOLOGY VOLUME 1: THE EMOTIONAL BASIS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Series Editors: Carroll E. Izard, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware and Jerome L. Singer Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut HUMAN EMOTIONS Carroll E. Izard THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF TIME Bernard S. Gorman and Alden E. Wessman THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Scientific Investigation into the Flow of Human Experience Kenneth S. Pope and Jerome L. Singer, eds. THE POWER OF HUMAN IMAGINATION: New Methods in Psychotherapy Jerome L. Singer and Kenneth S. Pope, eds. EMOTIONS IN PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Carroll E. Izard, ed. FREUD AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY, Volume I: The Emotional Basis of Mental Illness Helen Block Lewis FREUD AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY, Volume 2: The Emotional Basis of Human Behavior Helen Block Lewis
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FREUD AND
MODERN PSYCHOLOGY VOLUME 1: THE EMOTIONAL BASIS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
HELEN BLOCK LEWIS Yale University New Haven, Connecticut
PLENUM PRESS· NEW YORK AND LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Lewis, Helen B The emotional basis of mental illness. (Her Freud and modern psychology; v. 1) (Emotions, personality, and psychotherapy) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Psychology, Pathological. 2. Emotions. 3. Interpersonal relations. 4. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.5. Psychoanalysis. I. Title. II. Series. 616.89'001'9 80-20937 RC454.L48 ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-3814-7 e-1SBN-13: 978-1-4684-3812-3 001: 10.1007/978-1-4684-3812-3
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Preface
The tension between Freud's clinical discoveries about the power of human emotions and the theoretical framework in which he embedded these discoveries has been most eloquently detailed by Freud himself. His agonizing reappraisal. in 1926, of the libido theory of anxiety is just one example. But, as is usually the case, theoretical difficulties point to gaps in existing knowledge. At the time when Freud made his fundamental discovery that hysterical symptoms (and dreams) were understandable as reflections of forbidden ("strangulated") affect, anthropology was essentially nonexistent as a science. The cultural nature of human beings (our species' unique adaptation to life) could only be adumbrated by Freud (for example, in the myth of Totem and Taboo). As a consequence, the primacy of
