Discuss the influences of evolutionary theory and of the notion of mechanism on the development of psychoanalysis. In what ways did the neo-Freudians change Freudian psychoanalysis? To what does the word object refer in object relations theory?

 

  1. Discuss the influences of evolutionary theory and of the notion of mechanism on the development of psychoanalysis.
  2. In what ways did the neo-Freudians change Freudian psychoanalysis?
  3. To what does the word object refer in object relations theory?