Why Psychoanalytic Theory?
<1> The lyrebird is an endangered Australian creature, almost a strange peacock with a steely grey body and tail feathers flanked on either side with an ostentatious whorl. What makes this bird unique is that in order to attract a mate, the lyrebird sings a song that consists of every notable birdsong, forest noise, or human-generated sound the bird has ever heard, sung in a sequence composed by the bird. The lyrebird faithfully mimics these noises in timbre and resonance, and repeats them exactly as they were originally heard: the impersonation is so good that it fools practically all other creatures who have the privilege of eavesdropping in on the vanishing bird’s song. The researcher attracted to interviews is not a lyrebird[1], for she interprets what she hears and it is impossible for her to reproduce the experience of the interview. She has neither the faculties to reproduce the talk of the interview accurately (memory, experience, or the unconscious gets in the way), nor the te
Related Questions
- Is FT rooted in any other theory of human development such as Birth Order Theory, Cognitive-Behavioral Theory, Freudian or Psychoanalytic Theory, Spiritualism, or any other known psychiatric method?
- What types of things determine behavior according to psychoanalytic theory?
- Who was the founder of Psychoanalytic theory?
