The Adaptive Function of Freudian Ambivalence, A Freudian Neo-Darwinian Synthesis

<p>This Clinical Research Project develops a proposal for the adaptive function of Freudian ambivalence through evolutionary psychology, a neo-Darwinian sub-paradigm. This proposal posits that Freudian ambivalence is a grand-superordinate adaptive program composed of two integrated bivalent superordinate programs that in turn instigate adaptive behavior. The one and then the other serve the following adaptive functions: (i) to compute the inclusive fitness costs and benefits of social objects; and (ii) to regulate adaptive psychological and physiological responses to social objects.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Psy.D. Doctor of Clinical Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - NLU Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Clinical Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Wolff, David

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bradley Olson, Ph.D.
• Tiffeny Jimenez, Ph.D.
• Judah Viola, Ph.D.

• psychoanalysis
• evolutionary psychology
• ambivalence
• neo-Darwinian
• Freud
• Cognitive Psychology
• Psychology
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Social Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/738

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1790