In the eye of the beholder: Helmholtzian perception and the origins of Freud's 1900 theory of transference.
Freud's 1900 theory of transference was indebted to the convergence of philosophy and physiology found in nineteenth-century theories of visual perception. The author maps out the post-Kantian philosophical and German physiological currents that gave rise to Hermann von Helmholtz's influential work on perception, and proposes that Freud's 1900 theory of transference was a creative synthesis of novel notions like unconscious wishing and psychic defense with a Helmholtzian model of visual illusion.
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D004325:Dreams; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011603:Psychophysiology; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*