Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Country (by Henry Denker) concerns Sigmund Freud at 36, when, butting against the wall of medical opposition, he was also breaking through the wall of man's unconscious. It specifically concerns his early and famous patient, the young Viennese Elizabeth von Ritter: through opening the shutters of her mind, which had put fetters on her body, Freud released light that, expanding, would flood modern living and penetrate modern thought. Thanks to a sound union of play and production, A Far Country is very often engrossing...
...Freud's classic example was of little Hans, aged five, who was panic-stricken at the idea of having to go out in the street. Why? Freud explained that little Hans had strong Oedipal feelings toward his mother; therefore he had hostility to ward his father and therefore anxiety. He repressed the anxiety and converted it into hippophobia ? he was afraid to go out be cause he was afraid of being castrated by the bite of a horse. To Freud the horse represented little Hans's father. This elaborate hypothesis neatly fitted Freud's preoccupation with castration fears, which...
Otto Rank (1884-1939). disciple of Freud, who later split with him, made a cult of birth trauma. To him life was a process of individuation, which meant a series of separations ? birth, weaning, going to school, heading a household. To Rank, anxiety was the apprehension involved in these separations. Alfred Adler, apostle of inferiority feelings, never formulated a full-blown theory of anxiety, but showed more insight than his Vienna rivals in seeing the uses that the neurotic makes of anxiety. If it blocks his activity, it permits him to retreat to a previous state of security...
...from Karen Homey. Erich Fromm and Harry Stack Sullivan. To Fromm, the Freudian frustration of sex energy becomes anxiety only when it involves some value or way of life that the individual holds vital to his security?for instance, the prestige of having a pretty wife. Horney believed that Freud put the cart before the horse; anxiety, she held, came before the instinctual drives?...
University of Illinois' Psychologist O. Hobart Mowrer agrees with Freud on the mechanism of anxiety's creation. But Mowrer differs on basic cause. To him the conflicts that cause anxiety are not so much animal and sexual as human and ethical. They involve the repression of moral strivings. Mowrer notes that anxiety arises when the person feared is also loved...