In the eye of the beholder: Helmholtzian perception and the origins of Freud's 1900 theory of transference. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Freud's 1900 theory of transference was indebted to the convergence of philosophy and physiology found in nineteenth-century theories of visual perception. The author maps out the post-Kantian philosophical and German physiological currents that gave rise to Hermann von Helmholtz's influential work on perception, and proposes that Freud's 1900 theory of transference was a creative synthesis of novel notions like unconscious wishing and psychic defense with a Helmholtzian model of visual illusion.

publication date

  • January 1, 1994

Research

keywords

  • Freudian Theory
  • Philosophy
  • Psychoanalytic Therapy
  • Transference, Psychology
  • Visual Perception

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0028268202

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1177/000306519404200210

PubMed ID

  • 8040555

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 42

issue

  • 2