id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8796 Psychoanalytic theory - Wikipedia .html text/html 3929 635 51 Psychoanalytic theory came to full prominence in the last third of the twentieth century as part of the flow of critical discourse regarding psychological treatments after the 1960s, long after Freud's death in 1939.[1] Freud had ceased his analysis of the brain and his physiological studies and shifted his focus to the study of the mind and the related psychological attributes making up the mind, and on treatment using free association and the phenomena of transference. Freud's theory and work with psychosexual development led to Neo-Analytic/ Neo-Freudians who also believed in the importance of the unconscious, dream interpretations, defense mechanisms and the integral influence of childhood experiences but had objections to the theory as well. The most important theorists are Erik Erikson (Psychosocial Development), Anna Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Karen Horney, and including the school of object relations. Psychoanalytic theory is a major influence in Continental philosophy and in aesthetics in particular. "Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8796.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8796.txt