Phantasies, neurotic-beliefs, and beliefs-proper.
American journal of psychoanalysis December 2001 L A Brakel
This paper presents a philosophical analysis of three cognitive states familiar and important to psychoanalysts--phantasy, neurotic-belief, and belief-proper. It explores the differences among these three propositional attitudes and finds that the development of secondary process capacities of reality testing and truth directness out of earlier primary process operations (themselves prior to...