PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Libido, Countertransference
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Society: destruction paper was her first theoretical paper. This was around 1911 but positive and negative charge. She said the sexuality (the reproductive drive) comprises both positive (constructive) and negative (destructive) components: more specifically the reproductive drive consists of 2 antagonistic components the destructive drive and the drive for coming into being. )n concordance to bleuer(cid:495)s definition of ambivalence, antagonistic components are thus housed alongside one another in the reproductive drive. In the opening paragraph we see that spielrein actually begins with questioning why the sexual drive harbors negative and positive feelings. You have to overcome the bad b/c the bad especially affects neurotics. Name the two principle instincts (p. 30: instinct for self preservation, instinct for species preservation. What troubled freud about spielrein(cid:495)s thesis: freud said that her destructive drive wasn"t to his liking b/c he felt that it was personally conditioned and that she seemed (cid:498)abnormally ambivalent(cid:499).