title: [Development of the autonomy concept in psychoanalytic literature].
abstract: The development of an implicit concept of autonomy in Freud's work and the different explicit concepts of autonomy in neo-analysis and ego-psychology is delineated. The contradictory views of a strict psychic determinism and the utopia of freedom stand side by side in early psychoanalysis. They represent its scientific and romantic root. Neo-analysis puts a stress on the romantic tradition and elaborates a philosophical concept of autonomy, while modern ego-psychology follows rather the scientific tradition. All concepts of autonomy are based on a model of psychic health that is related to the idea of a harmonious personality, an ideal which has precursors in German classicism, the renaissance, and the antique.
mesh_terms: D005610:Freedom; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D007207:Individuation; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010551:Personality; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
vernacular_title: Die Entwicklung des Autonomiebegriffs in der psychoanalytischen Literatur.