On autoerotism and object relations in the psycho-sexual development
Some viewpoints on Freud's drive theories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6130198 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars-Johan Schalin (a Grundvägen 13 A, SF-00330 , Helsingfors , Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-40 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01062301.1995.10592329 |
| OpenAlex | W1973935361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Autoerotic gratifications are necessary for children suffering from a disturbed mother relation, and constitute symptoms of the same (jactatis capitis, extreme masturbation, etc.). The origins of the autoerotic functions go as far back as the foetal stage (thumbsucking). In the habits of so-called normal human beings, they also have an important stabilizing function to psychic autonomy. We are accompanied by primary and sublimated autoerotic functions all through our lives, which offer comfort and satisfaction during the different vicissitudes of life. Freud's monistic drive theory seems more plausible to me than his later dualistic theories. In accordance with the former, man can regress from object-libidinal cathexes into autoerotic positions when feeling psychically or physically threatened, and during normal conditions when asleep, sleep constituting a normal narcissistic state
Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Feeling · Freudian theory · Monism · Object (grammar) · Object relations theory · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Relation (database) · Viewpoints · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |