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Psychoanalytic paradigms and their narcissistic investment
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|January 1, 1980
Abstract:
The irrational elements in paradigm evolution, propagation, and competition have been explored. A central premise is that the narcissistic investment of a paradigm is an important contribution to the irrational process of paradigm evolution. Kuhn's (1962, 1970) ideas are summarized. An extrapolation and application of his ideas to the history of the evolution of psychoanalytic paradigms is attempted.