title: The genetic point of view: antecedents and transformations.
abstract: It seems educationally advantageous to focus renewed attention on the different sets of propositions encompassed within the genetic point of view. Those assumptions fall into two major classes: antecedents and transformations. Custom and usefulness seems to have brought these two together in the present classification of metapsychology. This re-emphasis of the differences between them appears warranted to further assert their distinctions and enhance the applicability of both.
mesh_terms: D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D014170:Transformation, Genetic