The psycho-analytic study of the family

All that we have said with regard to the weaning of the child from the love relationship that binds him to the family applies with but little alteration to the dependence relati...

We saw in the last chapter that the feelings with which men tend to look upon the holders of the highest earthly dignity and power--the heads of churches, states and empires--ar...

In dealing thus far with the psychic aspects of the filio-parental relations in their origin, nature and development, we have for the most part based our considerations on the s...

Supposing the tendency to incest to have been called into being and maintained by some such causes, or combination of causes, as we have considered in the last chapter, what are...

In studying the hate aspects of the original Œdipus complex we saw that these aspects, on their first appearance and in so far as they depend on mere jealousy or envy, are secon...

The problems connected with the origin, development and influence upon human history of the love attitude in relation to the family are, as we have said, in some respects both m...

When the original object-love, at first directed to the parent, has been successfully transferred to some more remote relative in the manner studied in the last chapter, the cou...

The progress that has recently been made in our understanding of the importance and nature of the psychological problems connected with family life is to a very considerable ext...

Our last two chapters have again been something in the nature of a digression--a digression however which, we will hope, has not been altogether unprofitable, inasmuch as it has...

Up to this point, in studying the process of individual development in relation to the family environment, we have as far as possible confined our attention to the more normal a...

We have now reached a point in our discussion at which we may perhaps profitably pause awhile to consider a group of phantasies, which, on account of their widespread occurrence...

Having now completed our theoretical survey, it may be well to undertake, as a final instalment of our task, some brief consideration of the main practical conclusions that emer...

In the emotional and affective attitudes of the child towards its parents and the other important persons in its environment, so far as we have now traced them, the child's cond...

The descriptive portion of our task is now completed. We have traced, with such degree of detail as the scope of this book has permitted, the growth within the individual mind o...

The phantasies of return to the womb and of re-birth, with which we have just been concerned, are intimately connected with another phantasy which is met with surprisingly often...

In this short sketch of what--from the results of psycho-analytic and other investigations--we may regard as the normal development of the individual mind in regard to the famil...

The considerations raised at the end of the last chapter were somewhat in the nature of a digression. Such a digression was however inevitable, for the questions involved in the...

There is now some very general measure of agreement that if humanity is to escape the fate of having passed through the ordeal of world-wide war in vain, the recent era of destr...

In the fixations and regressions we have so far considered we were concerned more or less exclusively with the love and hate aspects of the relations of the individual to his fa...

The circumstances that have led to the production of this little book are, I think, sufficiently explained in the introductory chapter; there is, therefore, no need to dwell upo...

detachment of the erotic impulses from the parental images as they exist in the Unconscious, and should not occur in cases where real freedom from the secret domination of these...