Psychoanalysis, Topological Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology

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In this he is backed by Freud. Cf. New Introductory Lectures, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1933. Cf. also my previous remarks, Freud and the Scientific Method, Phil, of Sci., 1: 323-337, 1934.

For the psychologist, all too frequently Adler, Jung, Rank, Stekel, et al., are “about the same as Freud”, and for the psychoanalysts all academic psychologies are ‘‘birds of one feather”. Hence I emphasize freudian and topological..

Lewin, Kurt: Principles of Topological Psychology, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1936. Brown, J. F.: Psychology and the Social Order, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1936.

Thus the connections between U.S. Cs, and Pcs, and between ego, superego, and id may be expressed as topological relationships. Concerning the relationships of Behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, and topological psychology, see Koffka, K.: Principles of Gestalt Psychology, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935; Lewin K.: Principles of Topological Psychology, op. cit., and Brown, J. F.: Psychology and the Social Order, op. cit. For a brief non-technical introduction to topological problems see Franklin, P.: What is Topology?, Phil, of Sei., 2, 1935, 39-47. For a statement about topological psychology and psychoanalysis see Lewin, K.: Psychoanalysis and Topological Psychology. (To appear in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, July, 1937.).

Woodger, J. H.: Biological Principles, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929. Von Bertalanffy, L.: Theoretische Biologie, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1932.

Cf. Brown, J. F.: Psychology and the Social Order, op. cit..

Lewin, K.: Principles of Topological Psychology, op. cit..

Hull, C. L.: The Conflicting Psychologies of Learning—A Way Out, Psychol. Rev., 42: 491-516, 1935. Tolman, E. C.: Operational Behaviorism and Current Trends in Psychology, Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary ‘Celebration of the Inauguration of Graduate Studies at the University of California, 89-103, 1936.

Lewin, K.: Psychoanalysis and Topological Psychology, op. cit., goes into this distinction in considerable detail.

Zeigarnik, B.: Über das Behalten von erledigten und unerledigten Handlungen, Psychol. Forsch., 9: 1-85. 1927.

Dembo, T.: Der Ärger als dynamisches Problem, Psychol. Forsch., 15: 1-144.

Brown, J. F.: Über die dynamischen Eigenschaften der Realitäts- und Irrealitäts-schichten, Psychol. Forsch., 18: 2-26. 1933.

Mahler, W.: Ersatzhandlungen verschiedenen Realitätsgrades, Psychol. Forsch., 18: 26-89. 1933.

Lissner, K.: Die Entspannung von Bedürfnissen durch Ersatzhandlungen, Psychol. Forsch., 18: 218-250. 1933.

Lewin, K.: Psychoanalysis and Topological Psychology, op. cit..

Brown, J. F.: The Modified Dembo Technique—An Application of Topological Psychology to Experimental Psychopathology. (To appear in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, July, 1937.).