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Reich, W. (1931). The Characterological Mastery of the Oedipus Complex. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 12:452-467.

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(1931). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 12:452-467

The Characterological Mastery of the Oedipus Complex

Wilhelm Reich Author Information

Psycho-analytical investigation is in a position to provide the scientific theory of character with radically new points of view and with new results based on these. It is enabled to do this in virtue of three characteristics: its theory of unconscious mechanisms; its historical approach; its grasp of the dynamics and economics of psychic processes.

Because psycho-analysis penetrates beyond the given appearances to their nature and development and grasps the processes of the 'deep personality' in horizontal and vertical cross-section, it automatically opens the way to the ideal of the scientific study of character: a 'Theory of Genetic Types'. Such a theory would not only give us scientific understanding of human modes of behaviour, but also insight into their specific developmental history. The transfer of character-study from the category of so-called 'mental science' in Klages' sense to that of the natural science of psychology is, in itself, no small service.

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