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Paul Federn

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887:"As long as the ego functions normally, one may ignore, or be unaware of its functioning. As Federn says, normally there is no more awareness of the ego than of the air one breathes; only when respiration becomes burdensome is the lack of air recognized. The ego feeling is the feeling of unity, in continuity, contiguity and causality, in the experiences of the individual. In waking life the sensation of one's ego is omnipresent, but it undergoes continuous changes in quality and intensity. Slight disturbances and variations of ego feeling are a matter of common experience and subside unnoticed. When we are tired or drowsy, we feel numb; upon waking from a refreshing sleep, or upon receiving exciting news, we sense an invigorated ego feeling." 40: 1079: 629: 779:
as experience coinciding with "ego feeling" was inconsistent with Freud's structural approach. Out of loyalty to his mentor, Federn had a tendency to downplay his own theories, even though the conclusions he reached were far different from Freud's.
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Federn was born into a distinguished Jewish family. His grandfather was a rabbi in Prague, and his father, Salomon Federn (1832–1920) was a distinguished Viennese physician.
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Although Federn's psychoanalytical theories had limited influence within the movement, he had several important followers in Europe and America.
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should involve strengthening his defenses, while at the same time avoiding repressed material. He also believed that
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Federn advocated an unorthodox approach concerning analysis of psychosis. He believed that a patients' attempt at
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that caused a psychotic individuals' difficulties with the object. He also introduced the term
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After earning his doctorate in 1895, he was an assistant in general medicine under
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Paul Federn Receives Assistance from Friend Sigmund Freud, 1936: Original Letter
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from his mentor, as well as crediting him with the re-introduction of
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patients, he believed that their egos possessed insufficient
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In the late 1920s, Federn published important books such as "
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In 1938 Federn emigrated to the United States and settled in
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after the death of Federn postulates this Federn assumption:
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Zur Psychologie der Revolution: die Vaterlose Gesellschaft
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energy, and that it was a lack rather than an excess of
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With regard to 61:Psychosocial development (Erikson) 14: 795:should not be analyzed, and that 745:New York Psychoanalytic Institute 578:List of schools of psychoanalysis 1058:Ego Psychology and the Psychoses 881:Ego Psychology and the Psychoses 627: 554:British Psychoanalytical Society 406:Civilization and Its Discontents 38: 1091:– Shapell Manuscript Foundation 906:, NY: Nova Science, 2005, p. 63 825:Federn was also interested in 761:Some Variations in Ego-Feeling 560:Columbia University Center for 549:British Psychoanalytic Council 446:The Sublime Object of Ideology 416:The Mass Psychology of Fascism 16:Austrian-American psychologist 1: 1080:Works by or about Paul Federn 734:Vienna Psychoanalytic Society 386:Beyond the Pleasure Principle 376:Psychology of the Unconscious 342:The Interpretation of Dreams 771:" and the median nature of 1151: 1135:Psychoanalysts from Vienna 363:Three Essays on the Theory 958:Suicide and the Holocaust 904:Suicide and the Holocaust 829:. 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Index

a series of articles
Psychoanalysis

Psychosexual development
Psychosocial development (Erikson)
Unconscious
Preconscious
Consciousness
Psychic apparatus
Id, ego and superego
Ego defenses
Projection
Introjection
Libido
Drive
Transference
Countertransference
Resistance
Denial
Dreamwork
Cathexis
Abraham
Adler
Balint
Bion
Breuer
Chodorow
Erikson
Fairbairn
Ferenczi

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