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Published on: March 8, 2019
["Freud and fetichism": previously unpublished minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society]
Abstract:
On the occasion of this session held by the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society on the 24th of February 1909, Freud made a presentation on fetchism that was the point of departure for a reflection that led him to the theorization of the article of 1927. Being careful to differentiate his position from that of other authors having shown an interest for the subject, he clearly stressed the role of infantile sexuality as an etiological factor, and in particular the link between fetichism and repression. The discussion that followed the presentation shows that Freud and Adler's positions were beginning to diverge, the latter replacing the notion of instincts that Freud held to be involved in the mechanism of repression, by that of "fear of degradation" and of "sensitivity". These Minutes that had been thought to have disappeared are studied within the more general framework of the meetings of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society.
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