A critical comparison and evaluation of the classical etiological formula and the Kleinian viewpoint on obsessional neurosis.

This study aims at exploring and explicating a latent controversy in the psychoanalytic literature between the 'classical etiological formula' and the Kleinian viewpoint on obsessional neurosis.The classical formula, which comprises Freud's original theses and subsequent contributions, is comprehensively reviewed and its particular depiction of the internal structure of obsessional neurosis is spelt out. Klein's writings on the topic, although they enjoy a definite status amongst certain contemporary writers, have never before been properly systematised. The comparison suggests that major contradictions exist between the two viewpoints.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Psychology

Year dc:date.issued

1982

Author dc:creator

• Couve, Cyril

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Faber, Philip

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9950

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9950