Before revision: The obsessive factor of fixation is also found in symptoms pertaining to obsessive compulsive disorder, which psychoanalysts linked to a mix of early (pregenital) frustrations and gratifications.Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946) p. 305 Fixation has been compared to psychological imprintingJanet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (London 1988) p. 158 at an early and sensitive period of development.Richard L. Gregory ed, The Oxford Companion to the Mind (Oxford 1987) p. 356 others object that Freud was attempting to stress the looseness of the ties between libido and object, and the need to find a specific cause any given (perverse or neurotic) fixation.Stephen A. Mitchell, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (1988) p. 78 Post-Freudians Melanie Klein saw fixation as inherently pathologicalC.
After revision: The obsessive factor of fixation is also found in symptoms pertaining to obsessive compulsive disorder, which psychoanalysts linked to a mix of early (pregenital) frustrations and gratifications.Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946) p. 305 Fixation has been compared to psychological imprintingJanet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (London 1988) p. 158 at an early and sensitive period of development.Richard L. Gregory ed, The Oxford Companion to the Mind (Oxford 1987) p. 356 Others object that Freud was attempting to stress the looseness of the ties between libido and object, and the need to find a specific cause any given (perverse or neurotic) fixation.Stephen A. Mitchell, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (1988) p. 78 Post-Freudians Melanie Klein saw fixation as inherently pathologicalC.