TY - JOUR
AB - BOOK REVIEWS 30 1 Piaget formulated the concepts of assimilation and accommoda- tion in 1927. Since then Piaget and his students, as well as many others, have explored the theoretical explanatory and empirical con- sequences of these ideas. Students of artificial intelligence have em- ployed modifications of the theory. Application of schema concepts to psychoanalysis have been numerous. The authors of this volume have not integrated these developments into their work and thus have deprived themselves of opportunities for useful borrowing and collaboration. Perhaps in an attempt to maintain contact with other psychoanalytic thinkers, they use metapsychology terms, such as ego and defense, in ways that are related to but different from common current usage. This is particularly annoying with regard to the term ego, which, as the authors discuss early in the book, has been used in so many mutually contradictory and confusing ways as to obscure psychoanalytic discourse. The recurrent demonstration in many disciplines of the power of effective language to achieve deeper understanding, greater pre- dictive capacity, and novel perspectives has led psychoanalysts to at- tempt to develop more or less abstract formulations of their views and findings. New vocabularies will be assessed by their capacities 
TI - Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory.
JF - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
DO - 10.1177/000306519404200128
DA - 1994-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/repression-and-dissociation-implications-for-personality-theory-u39aoOIk64
SP - 301
EP - 304
VL - 42
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -