As psychoanalysis emerged as a developmental psychology focused on the importance of the young child's ties to its parents in the postwar period, it remained focused on the Oedipal period, as Freud insisted it should. Anna Freud similarly insisted that the oedipus complex lies at the center of psychological development. Both saw psychoanalysis as a psychology of conflict centered on the resolution of the nuclear neurosis and primarily focused on the little boy's tiffany ring on sale desire and ambivalence during the preschool years. Freud paid scant attention to the child's psychic development before the third to fifth year, and even less attention to psychological development in later years.
erotic stimulation from his nursemaids, and he attributed the roots of his neurosis to these experiences. Insisting that the origins of an adult neurosis was founded in the nuclear neurosis of early childhood (Nagera, 1966), Freud paid scant attention to the pre-Oedipal determinants of personal distress, perhaps because of his difficulty in resolving his feelings regarding his loss of his mother .month after his mother, Amalie's, own brother, Julius, died of tuberculosis. Both had been tiffany pendant on sale Julius. clinical work focused on women struggling with "hysterical" disorders, nearly all of whom first became ill while providing nursing care for seriously ill fathers (Breuer and Freud, 1895; S. Freud, 1905a; Seidenberg and Papathomopoulos, 1962). Later, Freud was apparently unaware of
It is puzzling that, at the same time, psychoanalysis was founded on Freud's introspective ruminations following his father's death, and, thus, was primarily a psychology of fathers and sons, his caregiver. Despite this early work with women suffering from hysterical illness, S. Freud's (1905a, 1925,1931,1933) writing on the psychology of women was often confusing and naive. This partly resulted from Freud's assumption that the little girl's the parallel between tiffany bangle on sale early cases and his own situation, in which his daughter Anna became his development must be symmetrical with that of the little boy's (as Freud had discovered the boy's development in his self-analysis) i.e., the girl must compete with her mother for the attention of the father. But this is difficult to integrate with
two other observations-the centrality of castration anxiety in the boy's development and the tiffany cufflink on sale emotional tie to its mother. The symmetry breaks down. How can girls experience castration anxiety when they do not have genitals that appear vulnerable to loss, in the manner that boys do? And, how can girls be as intensely attached to their fathers as boys are to their mothers, when both sexes share an early, profound attachment to the mother? The description of the girl as mirroring the boy in sexual development could only be worked out at the cost of developing an ever more elaborate and implausible theory. Freud's work may be viewed as a son's psychology in the context of mourning his father's death.
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