What Is Self Psychology?

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-305
Author(s):  
David S. Maclsaac
Keyword(s):  
Self Psychology

Anthropologist's Self Psychology.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Self Psychology

The Effects of Self Psychology in Psychoanalysis

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 655-656
Author(s):  
William King
Keyword(s):  
Self Psychology

Correction to "Self Psychology After Kohut"

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 1012-1012
Author(s):  
Goldie Alfasi
Keyword(s):  
Self Psychology

Review of Psychotherapy, Adolescents, and Self-Psychology.

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1102-1102
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Self Psychology

Developing Homosexuality: Fritz Morgenthaler, Junction Points and Psychoanalytic Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Aaron Lahl ◽  
Patrick Henze
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Self Psychology ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Psychoanalytic Technique ◽  
Oedipal Complex ◽  
Junction Points ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Original Thinker

The Swiss psychoanalyst Fritz Morgenthaler (1919–84) is well known in German-speaking psychoanalysis as an early exponent of Heinz Kohut's self psychology, as an ethnopsychoanalytic researcher and as an original thinker on the topics of dreams, psychoanalytic technique and especially on sexuality (perversions, heterosexuality, homosexuality). In 1980, he presented the first psychoanalytic conception of homosexuality in the German-speaking world that did not view homosexuality in terms of deviance or pathology. His theory of ‘junction points’ ( Weichenstellungen) postulates three decisive moments in the development of homosexuality: a prioritized cathexis of autoeroticism in narcissistic development, a Janus-facedness of homosexual desire as an outcome of the Oedipal complex and the coming out in puberty. According to Morgenthaler, this development can result in non-neurotic or neurotic homosexuality. Less known than the theory of junction points and to some degree even concealed by himself (his earlier texts appeared later on in corrected versions) are Morgenthaler's pre-1980 accounts of homosexuality which deserve to be called homophobic. Starting with a discussion of this early work, the article outlines Morgenthaler's theoretical development with special focus on his theory of junction points and how this theory was taken up in psychoanalytic theory.

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