Attachment and the driving force of development: A critical discussion of empirical infant research

Autor: Signe Holm Pedersen, Judy Gammelgaard, Katrine Zeuthen
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: International Forum of Psychoanalysis. 19:230-239
ISSN: 1651-2324
0803-706X
DOI: 10.1080/0803706x.2010.497163
Popis: Empirical infant research has led to an enormous expansion of our knowledge of the psychological functions of the infant. From a psychoanalytic perspective, however, it must be questioned whether this research has increased our knowledge of internal psychic life and helped answer the questions of what initiates and drives development. In the first part of this article, we argue that psychoanalysis must necessarily adopt a critical stance towards a scholarly ideal that rests on the positivist empirical tradition. Psychoanalysis has as its object unconscious processes that cannot be directly observed. In the following section, we take as our point of departure the project of attachment theory that Peter Fonagy and his colleagues have developed in an attempt to reconcile psychoanalysis with the empirical and experimental study of small children, and we demonstrate concretely the limitations of such a project vis-a-vis the exploration of the psychic reality of the child. Our line of reasoning continu...
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