Chapter 9- Childhood Experiences And The Adult World- Textbook Of Psychoanalysis (TOP)

Question 1

Although there are differing points of view within contemporary psychoanalysis, what are the 4 areas of importance that are mostly agreed on?

Answer 1

The unconscious, the therapeutic power of transference/countertransferance, the importance of subjectivity in interpreting meaning, and the role the past has in influencing the present

Question 2

The present is typically understood in the context of the past. Which 5 contexts of someone’s past have significance?

Answer 2

Drives, infantile phantasies, mother-child interaction, family relational patterns, and narcissistic mirroring