Freud's discovery of an emotional basis for mental illness led him to pursue the emotional basis of human behavior in general. This pursuit led him to undertake observational studies of dreams (1900), everyday mistakes (1901), sexuality (1905b), character formation (1908, 1931), jokes (1905a), and the origin of guilt (1913). Volume 2 of Freud and Modern Psychology examines the texts of each of these major writings in general psychology, continuing to explore the contradiction between Freud's observations about the power of emotions and his narrow the oretical formulations about human behavior. Volume 2 also reviews the remarkable power of the uniquely moral emotions of shame and guilt not only to create psychiatric symptoms, as discussed in Volume 1, but to infiltrate our nightly dreams, create everyday parapraxes, influence the development of sexuality, specify the emotional release in jokes, shape personality, and create human culture. As we saw in Volume 1, we shall see again in Volume 2 that Freud's theoretical difficulties arose from the absence of a viable theory of human nature as cultural, that is, social by biological origin. In a the oretical framework based on the cultural nature of human nature, the emotions and the social cohesion are reciprocally related to each other. The emotions are the means of the social cohesion which, in turn, is the means by which the emotions, including shame and guilt, are formed in infancy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781468445343
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189630609
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology
Author
Helen Block Lewis
Publication Name
Freud and Modern Psychology: the Emotional Basis of Human Behavior
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Psychology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
246 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
368g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Helen Block Lewis
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