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Freud’s first theory of neurosis was an affect theory. It developed into an instinct theory that, in the minds of many, superseded it. Jacobson, who pointed this out in a paper in 1954, believes that this occurrence greatly delayed efforts to clarify the concept of affects and their relationships to other aspects of development. Much that Freud formulated originally in terms of emotions has been shifted and rephrased into instinct theory, but pieces of affect theory have persisted as isolated fragments. Benjamin wrote in 1961, “we do not have [in psychoanalysis] an adequate theory of affects in general and of anxiety in particular, in spite of the significant contributions of Rapaport and others.”
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Provence, S. (1978). A Clinician’s View of Affect Development in Infancy. In: Lewis, M., Rosenblum, L.A. (eds) The Development of Affect. Genesis of Behavior, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2616-8_12
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