title: Metaphysics and innateness: a psychoanalytic perspective.
abstract: By taking into account certain aspects of narcissistic ego functioning and the family romance, an attempt is made to account for the psychogenesis of the idea of innateness that is found in various forms in the epistemologies of Plato, Descartes, Kant and linguistic philosophy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hanly
mesh_terms: D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008678:Metaphysics; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D010684:Philosophy; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory