Primary and Secondary Psychic Processes: Two Modes of Mental Functioning
Freud’s distinction between primary and secondary psychic processes—from displacement, condensation, dreams and humour to logic, reality and the work of the Ego.
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Primal Fantasies: Freud’s Theory of Inherited Psychic Schemas
Freud’s concept of primal fantasies: inherited childhood schemas involving seduction, the primal scene, sexual difference and the cloacal theory.
Hysteria: Psychic Conflict on the Stage of the Body
A psychoanalytic view of hysteria—from the ancient idea of the ‘wandering womb’ to conversion, phobia, repression and transference.