Article
A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Tics
Zur Genese des Tics
Copyright Life + 70 years In copyright The last author or translator died in 1960; protected through 2030.United States Public domain Published in 1925; public domain since 2021.
Melanie Klein's 1925 paper, published in the Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, is based on her analysis of a boy who suffered from a tic. She argues that the tic is not merely a narcissistic discharge but is bound up with object relations: with the boy's phantasies about his parents' sexual intercourse, with masturbation, and with the anxiety and guilt attached to them. Once this material had been analysed, the tic disappeared. The paper appeared in English as "A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Tics".
- Published
- 1925
- In
- Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse 11 (1925), Heft 3, pp. 332–349
- Language
- German