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Psychoanalysis discovered late in the last century that adult neurotic conflicts were derived from neurotic conflicts in childhood, that as poets had known already, the child is father to the man. But this initial psychoanalytic discovery from work with adults related to neurotic structures, that is to psychosexual drives, particularly from the Oedipal stage of development, the anxiety they engendered, and the symptomatic means selected to cope with that anxiety.
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Burland, J.A., Cohen, T.B. (1980). Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Vulnerable and High-Risk Young Children. In: Sholevar, G.P., Benson, R.M., Blinder, B.J. (eds) Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6684-3_37
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