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> [“It is too disturbing for the patient to feel sexually attracted to his mother; in a last-ditch effort, the resistance disguises the feelings as current impulses toward the analyst. Although”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/it-is-too-disturbing-for-the-patient-to-feel-sexually-attracted-to/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

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## More by Stephen A. Mitchell

> [“Freud, again using his conclusions about men’s moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego and hence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/freud-again-using-his-conclusions-about-men-s-moral-attitudes-and/)

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> [“Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/erikson-1950-for-example-regarded-male-genitalia-as-orienting-boys-to/)

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> [“Winnicott’s understanding of the way experience can become traumatizing is quite different from Freud’s. Trauma for Winnicott is not just the introduction of something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/winnicott-s-understanding-of-the-way-experience-can-become/)

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> [“Loewald suggests that infantile, oedipal love detracts from and interferes with adult love when childhood experience is repressed, too strictly separated from adult experience.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/loewald-suggests-that-infantile-oedipal-love-detracts-from-and/)

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> [“people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/people-often-act-in-a-way-that-provokes-precisely-the-reactions-they/)

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> [“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often discerning observations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/many-patients-grew-up-feeling-their-perceptions-of-their-parents-were/)

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> [“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/the-child-is-not-traumatized-by-a-sexual-event-per-se-the-child-is/)

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> [“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/freud-believed-that-because-the-core-of-psychopathology-was-the/)

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> [“developmental theorists envision a mind rent by vertical splits between different self-states that have not been integrated with one another.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/developmental-theorists-envision-a-mind-rent-by-vertical-splits/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/reclaimed-unrepressed-infantile-experience-enriches-rather-than/)

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> [“Natanijel Brendan nas upoznaje s pričom o dr. Odri Ričards, antropologu koja je tridesetih godina XX veka radila s plemenom Bemba iz Severne Rodezije.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/natanijel-brendan-nas-upoznaje-s-pri-om-o-dr-odri-ri-ards-antropologu/)

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> [“Janine Chassequet-Smirgel (1988) and other French Freudians, for example, argue that Freud’s phallocentrism was not just wrong, but a motivated error, defending against a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/janine-chassequet-smirgel-1988-and-other-french-freudians-for-example/)

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> [“In Freud’s account, the male superego is established under the threat of castration anxiety, which forces the boy to abandon his oedipal ambitions, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/in-freud-s-account-the-male-superego-is-established-under-the-threat/)

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> [“Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/freud-found-that-the-most-central-childhood-problems-regularly/)

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> [“This fear manifested in Harvey’s self-protective vigilance with the analyst, his continually orchestrating the analytic experience rather than allowing himself to rely on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/this-fear-manifested-in-harvey-s-self-protective-vigilance-with-the/)

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