Article
A Contribution to the Theory of Intellectual Inhibition
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From the analysis of a boy unable to learn, Klein traces intellectual inhibition to anxiety about the inside of the mother's body. In phantasy the child has attacked it and filled it with dangerous objects. The wish to know becomes bound to that dread, so curiosity and the capacity to take in knowledge are checked.
- Published
- 1931
- In
- International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 12 (1931), pp. 206–218
- Language
- English