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| Title |
Freudarwin: Evolutionary Thinking as a Root of Psychoanalysis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00892 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Geoffrey Marcaggi, Fabian Guénolé |
| Abstract |
This essay synthesizes the place of biological evolutionism in the early history of psychoanalysis, and shows the implicit significance of German Darwinism in Sigmund Freud's whole psychoanalytical works. In particular, Freud, together with Sándor Ferenczi (1873-1933), applied to mental disorders hypotheses inspired by August Pauly's (1850-1914) psychological Lamarckism and Ernst Heckel (1834-1919) theory of recapitulation. Both of these theories rested upon the principle of inheritance of acquired characteristics, and were disproved by biological discoveries during the interwar period. However, despite these scientific progresses, Freud never gave up his idea of inherited unconscious memories, and we try here to sketch out what would have cost him a renunciation to such outdated biological principles. Notwithstanding, Sigmund Freud was the first to elaborate on evolutionary causes of mental syndromes, which makes of him the forerunner of current neo-Darwinian psychopathology, with few continuators to date within the psychoanalytic field. Nowadays, the extended neo-Darwinian synthesis and affective neuroscience may pave the way for a rational Darwinian approach to human mental disorders, which would take into account the whole neurological and psychological evolution of species, and be centered on emotions and their vicissitudes. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Spain | 2 | 6% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 27 | 77% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 27 | 77% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 17% |
| Scientists | 1 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 42 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 42 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 12% |
| Researcher | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 10% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 17% |
| Unknown | 16 | 38% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 8 | 19% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 12% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 19 | 45% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2023.
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#2,792
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#27,214
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#74
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