The American Imago Spring 1958 [antikvár]

A Model of Transitional Thought-Organization2 i by Richárd M. Jones, Ph.D. A I. Introduetion Freud's paper "Negation" (6) has provided impetus to a recently increasing number of reseaích efforts in clinical and experimentál psychology (7, 11, 12, 22, 23). The negation approach to a variety of investigative situations (What is a thing not? What could never be true of this or that? What is the furthest from a correct solution to task X?) is showing itself to be an effective means of eliciting the kind of "depth" material usually left to experimenter inference, or to such more radical procedures as hypnosis or drug administration. Under the influence of negátion instructions the content of subjects' responses, whether in projective test situations, or in interview behavior, or in the performance of eognitive tasks, is consistently less "censored"-or more imaginative-depending on how we choose to appraise it Consistently alsó the nature of the experimenter-subject relationship, and the subject's contact with reality remain relatively unaltered. Moreover, we can never doubt the source of the material, although we may ponder its exact