A STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC AND PIAGETIAN THEORY.
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Title
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A STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC AND PIAGETIAN THEORY.
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Identifier
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AAI8203277
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identifier
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8203277
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Creator
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ESPOSITO, ROSE ELEANOR.
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Contributor
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Steven Ellman
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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This dissertation attempted an analysis and integration of psychoanalytic and Piagetian theories. After some preliminary analysis of theories it was felt that the integration of theories would be most facilitated by the selection of a particular definition, out of a number of possible definitions, of psychoanalysis. At this point the scope of the dissertation was more clearly defined to encompass only psychoanalytic motivational concepts and the Piagetian concepts of equilibration, organization, adaptation, assimilation and accommodation as these latter concepts are explained by Piaget in the Origins of Intelligence. The psychoanalytic model of motivation which seemed to this author, most compatible with Piagetian theory, was an information feedback model developed by George Klein.;A summary and discussion of Klein's model was presented. Some modifications of that model were proposed. A summary and discussion of The Origins of Intelligence followed.;Finally a model which incorporated Piagetian concepts and psychoanalytic motivational concepts was presented. In this model the cyclical aspect of instinctual motives is explained by the hypotheses that motives emerge, and are satisfied or frustrated, in cycles which are constituted as successive and varying patterns of interrelationships of elements in organization lead sequentially to one another. In this model, too, it is assumed that intensity and quality of motivation, vary with the progression of events in these cycles. It is the variations which occur with the progression of the cycle, which make it seem that motives are autonomous or self-generating. In this model pleasure is associated with the correction of imbalance or with the transition from disequilibrium to equilibrium and unpleasure with the emergence of imbalance or the transition from equilibrium to disequilibrium. Quality of affect is determined by the specifics of the reordering which occurs with the transition from equilibrium to disequilibrium and vice versa, and intensity by the comprehensiveness of the interrelationships involved in the reordering.;Motives, then, are experienced as emerging and subsiding and reemerging again as shifts in locus and definition of disequilibrium occur with the progression of events in the cycle. Depending on the specificity and the comprehensiveness of the cycle, different motives or different forms of the same motive emerge as quality and intensity of affect vary.;Motivational hierarchy varies then as sequences of events are activated and terminated and reactivated in the context of their relationships to other sequences of events.;It is assumed, finally, that the primacy of sexual or erotogenic motives is due to their centrality. The centrality of these motives, it is assumed, is due, first of all, to the characteristics of the networks of elements which give rise to them. It is assumed that these networks are richly supplied with pathways linking its elements to the elements of other networks. It is also assumed that, in the immature organism, the centrality of erotogenic motives, is due to the relative order of the schemata comprising them.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
