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Neo-Freudian

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Ne·o-Freud·i·an (n-froid-n)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characterizing any psychoanalytic system based on but modifying Freudian doctrine by emphasizing social factors, interpersonal relations, or other cultural influences in personality development or in causation of the neuroses.


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the neo-Freudian The Wound and the Bow (1947), which includes his classic study of Charles Dickens's childhood trauma and how it made him, and the most pungent of his five journals, from the 1920s and 1960s.
Most annoyingly, in his introduction, influenced probably by the neo-Freudian bias of George Devereux, who originally was slated to be his co-author, he dismissively characterized homosexuality as a subdivision of the "quasi-sexual" or "pseudo-sexual," not even bothering to explain what he meant by these terms--though in his postscript to the 1989 edition he rationalized his choice of words by saying that "sexuality" and "sexual" could by definition (his definition
Both classical psychoanalytic theory and its neo-Freudian version concur: In the third stage of psychosexual development the superego evolves.
 
 
 
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