Psychoanalytic theory by sigmund freud
4 techniques of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Practice, Past toPresent
Psychoanalysis Remains, Although in the Context and Shadow of itsCriticism
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The responses to and criticisms of my paper are all a game of give and take, eachone starting off by acknowledging Freud's greatness in one sense or another, but thenundermining him and/or my paper in another way.
Beystehner acknowledges thatpsychoanalysis is a model, so it is necessarily simplified, and also acknowledgesthat the line of oversimplification is hard to draw, but then tries to draw itherself. She states her opinion, which is commonly held and important, that thetheory is too general and does not leave room for exceptions.
Criticism of psychoanalytic theory
I would concede thisif it is applied to Freud alone, but modern analysis has greatly changed many things. Emphasis has been taken off of the oedipal complex, among other things, and placedelsewhere. Beystehner also notes that I neglected Popper and Eyse
