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Writing in 1913 about the claims of psychoanalysis to scientific interest, Freud pointed to its developmental discoveries as a major contribution. He noted: “not every analysis of psychological phenomena deserves the name of psycho-analysis … from the very first psycho-analysis was directed towards tracing a developmental process” (pp. 182, 183). Rapaport and Gill, in their systematic description of the metapsychological propositions, stated, “psychoanalytic theory is undoubtedly a genetic psychology” (1959, p. 797), a view that Rapaport elaborated in his 1960 paper “Psychoanalysis as a Developmental Psychology.”
Freud's 1926 reworking of anxiety theory and description of the developmental sequence of anxieties ushered in the era of ego psychology, the focus of the last phase of Freud's evolving theoretical