The psychoanalytic focus on early experience has been demonstrated to be appropriate by research, and its depth-psychological perspective may illuminate outstanding questions.
Psychoanalytic object relations theory, with its focus on idiosyncratic distortions, may be able to make a significant contribution.
In one of these chapters, he presents a psychoanalytic critique of ethnic identity as a ' collective defense mechanism ' (p. xiii).
It has been its phenomenological, rather than its rational, validity which has kept the psychoanalytic show on the road.
By this is meant the application of psychoanalytic theory and concepts to history and biography.
Typically, the standard texts provide separate chapters on a number of different ' approaches ' to personality : trait, psychoanalytic, humanistic, social-cognitive, and so forth.
First, it concerns the concept of the subject doing the thinking : as a discrete rational agent, unaffected by personal history, psychoanalytic forces or socioeconomic context.
This commentary focuses sharply upon solms's interpretation of his data, which clearly reveals his commitment to psychoanalytic dream theory.
