Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality

Quintar, Bady; Lane, Robert C.; Goeltz, W.Bradley

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8580-4_2

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“…In their essay “Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality” in the book Advanced Personality, Quintar, Lane, and Goeltz (1998) noted that “Jeffrey Masson (1984) suggested that Freud’s abandonment of the seduction theory was based primarily on Freud’s needs to protect his professional reputation and to enhance his practice” (p. 35).…”

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The myth of Freud's ostracism by the medical community in 1896-1905: Jeffrey Masson's assault on truth.

Esterson¹

2002

History of Psychology

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The story recounted by Jeffrey M. Masson of the medical community's outraged response to the seduction theory is treated as historical fact in some of the recent literature on Freud's early psychoanalytic experiences. In this article the evidence adduced by Masson in The Assault on Truth (1984) to buttress his account of Freud's supposed ostracism is critically examined. It is concluded that this evidence fails to substantiate Masson's version of events, that there is abundant evidence that refutes it, and that he has ignored the historical research that demonstrates that the notion that Freud's early psychoanalytic writings received an irrationally hostile reception is a myth.

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