Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Development of Creativity
Schachtel explores the nature of thinking, attention, memory, and feelings with freshness, subtlety, and originality.
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This book was a breakthrough in its time. It remains a psychoanalytic treasure.
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Whether discussing the emotions or 'touch' or considering 'objectification,' he brings a creative organization to his writing that is profound and illuminating. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
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If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? First published in , Metamorphosis remains one of the great works of developmental psychology of the past century.
From his thoughtful meditation on the assumptions of classical Freudian psychoanalysis, among them the pleasure and reality principles, the relations of drive and affect, and the nature and causes of infantile amnesia, Schachtel moves on to profound reflections on the senses considered both in terms of their evolving relation to one another during maturation and as variable ingredients in the perception and cognition of the adult.
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Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Development of Creativity
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Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Perspectives. Most widely held works by Ernest G Schachtel. Metamorphosis; on the development of affect, perception, attention, and memory by Ernest G Schachtel Book 27 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The theme of this major new work is a problem central to both psychology and philosophy--how does adult man become what he is, how do his capacities and his limitations become what they are?
What are the changes, the continuities, and the conflicts in the stages of development from birth to adulthood?
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Rather than attempt to encompass all aspects of this metamorphosis, the author deals with some crucial factors in the development of affect, perception, attention, and memory. A salient theme in this examination of human growth is the conflict of becoming, of turning potentiality into actuality. Freud believed that the newborn, in complete helplessness, strives only for reduction and discharge of tension and wants to abolish the stimuli of the world into which he is born.
Schachtel shows that, side by side with this tendency, the newborn infant also turns toward the world, is attracted by an increasing variety of stimuli, has an increasing capacity for active searching for satisfaction, and enjoys the exercise of his growing capacities in active discovery and exploration.