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Compton, A. (2000). Current Views on Psychoanalytic Practice. Changing Ideas In A Changing World: The Revolution in Psychoanalysis. Essays in Honour of Arnold Cooper, 25-31

Current Views on Psychoanalytic Practice

Allan Compton, M.D.

I am a classical psychoanalyst. To me, the statement means that Freud's fundamental hypotheses - a lawful mind in significant degree outside of conscious awareness, mental conflict and clinical phenomena as compromise formations - remain, in my view, the best available set of hypotheses for understanding human mentation and other behaviour. Further, I mean that set of hypotheses continues to guide my clinical work, which consists of understanding and conveying to my patients the roles of wishes (urges, impulses, drive derivatives), unpleasure affects (anxiety and depression), and defensive operations. In my view, the structure of theory and practice provided by so-called classical analysis, as I have just characterized its scientific basis, remains the substructure, at least, of most of the psychoanalysis practised and taught in the world today: it is still the mainstream, even if in some degree subterranean at this point.

The submerging of adherence to Freudian theory seems to

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