The psycho-analytic study of the familyFlugel, J. C. (John Carl)
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The psycho-analytic study of the family
Flugel, J. C. (John Carl)
Families; Marriage; Parent and child; Psychoanalysis
[Footnote 120: _Cp._ Freud, "Beiträge zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens,"
_Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische und Psychopathologische Forschungen_,
1910, II, 390.]
[Footnote 121: It is such a character for instance that Ibsen appears
to have met in the person of Emilie Bardach of Vienna, who served as
principal model for Hilda Wangel in The Master Builder and who is referred
to in the following description given to his friend Elias (_Neue Deutsche
Rundschau_ 1906, p. 1462, quoted by William Archer in his Introductions to
Ibsen's plays, Vol. X, p. XXIV) "He related how he had met in the Tyrol
a Viennese girl of very remarkable character. She at once made him her
confidant. The gist of her confessions was that she did not care a bit
about one day marrying a well brought-up young man--most likely she would
never marry. What tempted and charmed and delighted her was to lure other
women's husbands away from them. She was a little daemonic worker: she
often appeared to him like a little bird of prey, that would fain have
made him too, her booty."]
[Footnote 122: Otto Rank, "Das Inzestmotiv in Dichtung und Sage,"
especially p. 121.]
[Footnote 123: An interesting example of this curious desire is quoted
by Rank (Das Inzestmotiv in Dichtung und Sage, p. 94.) from the life
of Schiller: on the occasion of the publication of the banns for the
marriage between the poet and Charlotte von Lengefeld, the former is said
to have remarked jokingly to his bride that it would be a pity if no one
came to raise some objection to the marriage or to dispute his right to
Charlotte's hand!]
[Footnote 124: This belief is often strengthened by, and in its turn tends
to confirm, the frequently held infantile theory which regards sexual
relations as consisting essentially of an attack on the mother by the
father--a theory which itself exerts in many cases an important and often
harmful influence on subsequent sexual life.]
[Footnote 125: _Cp._ E. S. Hartland, "The Legend of Perseus." Vol. I, p.
94.]
[Footnote 126: Byron's espousal (note, by the way, the implications
underlying the use of such an expression in this connection) of the cause
of Greek independence may be cited as a classical example of this form of
sublimation.]
[Footnote 127: _Cp._ below, Ch. XII.]
[Footnote 128: _Cp._ Otto Rank, "Die Lohengrinsage." 87. ff., Ernest Jones
"Papers on Psycho-Analysis," 233.]
[Footnote 129: "Beiträge zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens." _Jahrbuch für
psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen_, 1910, II, 389.]
[Footnote 130: Indeed it frequently happens that a boy will call up the
image of some girl whom he sincerely loves in order that he may the better
resist the temptation to practise masturbation.]
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