...James Youniss Freud and Piaget offered American researchers well-formed theories of development grounded in 19th-century European experiences of failed democratic experiments. Their theories sought to correct overly optimistic views of human nature, rationality, and morality. Americans tended...

... and Freud – as well as drawing on the approach to cultural interpretation championed by Geertz. 15 1 2010 © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel 1993 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages, reproduced...

...Hans G. Furth Castoriadis proposes the ‘radical imaginary’ as the psychological foundation of human society. A developmental analysis of this concept links it on the cognitive side to what Piaget describes as object and symbol formation and on the dynamic side to what Freud refers to as libidinal...

...Hans G. Furth An attempt is made to interpret Piaget’s developmental theory of knowledge and Freud’s metapsychology with a common focus on the human capacity of symbolic knowing. Whereas Freud linked symbols dynamically to libido development, Piaget explained them as a function of sensorimotor...