[Subsequent psychological effects].
In connection with the concept of temporality and psychic causality, the notion of deferred action plays a significant role in Freud's thinking. Early experiences, impressions and recollections are later revised in the light of new experience and thus subsequently given a meaning that they did not originally have. The author's main concern here is to show that psychoanalysis of such a strictly hermeneutic nature--regarding the past entirely in terms of the present and projecting a whole system of new meanings onto it which the patient finds immediately convincing--is unable to satisfy the rigorous scientific standards implicit in Freud's approach to causal explanation and will thus necessarily fail to identify the actual past causes of present illness. Kerz-Rühling's article is a call for a more empirically oriented form of psychoanalysis de-potentiating empathy and understanding in counter-transference and reinstating the inductive method of establishing causes.
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Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt am Main.
D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
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