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 20: Mr. Cyril Burt, who possesses both abilities and
opportunities of an exceptional degree as regards the observation of
children, has suggested to me that two types of transference corresponding
roughly to different stages of development, should be distinguished in
this connection. In the first type (characteristic of children of between
4 and 9) there is a well marked displacement of the erotic or quasi-erotic
aspects to some older person, usually of the opposite sex, while the
child continues to feel tenderness for the parent. In the second type
(characteristic of children of 10 up to the period of adolescence) the
attitude towards the love object (parent substitute) is more reverential,
tenderness being complicated by submissiveness and fear and the affection
being in general far less physical and demonstrative than in the first
type. "The attitude" adds Mr. Burt, "of emotional girls in Standard II and
Standard V respectively toward their teachers seems to me typical. The
former maul and kiss (if allowed): the latter reverence from afar."
If this distinction be generally true, it would seem that there are two
main stages of displacement of the parent regarding feelings:--(1) in
which the more erotic elements are displaced, the more tender aspects of
affection being still directed to the parents; (2) in which these latter
are in their turn transferred, in whole or in part, to new love objects.]
CHAPTER IV
THE FAMILY AND THE LIFE TASK OF THE INDIVIDUAL
FREUD AND JUNG
[Sidenote: Non-sexual aspects of Individual development in relation to the
family]
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