Review of Childhood Dialogues and the Lifting of Repression: Character
                        Structure and Psychoanalytic Technique.

N. McWilliams

doi:10.1037/032162

Review of Childhood Dialogues and the Lifting of Repression: Character Structure and Psychoanalytic Technique.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/032162 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 37 (5) ◽

pp. 499-499

Author(s):

N. McWilliams

Keyword(s):

Character Structure ◽

Psychoanalytic Technique

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Personality, Character, and Character Structure Revisited

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/004103 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 40 (11) ◽

pp. 1053-1054

Author(s):

Ruth Ochroch

Keyword(s):

Character Structure

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Review of Classics in Psychoanalytic Technique.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/019921 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 26 (12) ◽

pp. 972-972

Author(s):

No authorship indicated

Keyword(s):

Psychoanalytic Technique

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Readability and human interest scores of twenty-eight books on psychoanalytic technique

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e330262004-004 ◽

1984 ◽

Author(s):

C. Peterson

Keyword(s):

Human Interest ◽

Psychoanalytic Technique

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Developing Homosexuality: Fritz Morgenthaler, Junction Points and Psychoanalytic Theory

Psychoanalysis and History ◽

10.3366/pah.2020.0327 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 79-101

Author(s):

Aaron Lahl ◽

Patrick Henze

Keyword(s):

Coming Out ◽

Psychoanalytic Theory ◽

Self Psychology ◽

Theoretical Development ◽

Special Focus ◽

Psychoanalytic Technique ◽

Oedipal Complex ◽

Junction Points ◽

German Speaking ◽

Original Thinker

The Swiss psychoanalyst Fritz Morgenthaler (1919–84) is well known in German-speaking psychoanalysis as an early exponent of Heinz Kohut's self psychology, as an ethnopsychoanalytic researcher and as an original thinker on the topics of dreams, psychoanalytic technique and especially on sexuality (perversions, heterosexuality, homosexuality). In 1980, he presented the first psychoanalytic conception of homosexuality in the German-speaking world that did not view homosexuality in terms of deviance or pathology. His theory of ‘junction points’ ( Weichenstellungen) postulates three decisive moments in the development of homosexuality: a prioritized cathexis of autoeroticism in narcissistic development, a Janus-facedness of homosexual desire as an outcome of the Oedipal complex and the coming out in puberty. According to Morgenthaler, this development can result in non-neurotic or neurotic homosexuality. Less known than the theory of junction points and to some degree even concealed by himself (his earlier texts appeared later on in corrected versions) are Morgenthaler's pre-1980 accounts of homosexuality which deserve to be called homophobic. Starting with a discussion of this early work, the article outlines Morgenthaler's theoretical development with special focus on his theory of junction points and how this theory was taken up in psychoanalytic theory.

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