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1923 H. G. Baynes tr. Jung's Psychol. Types i. 78 The Freudian interpretation [of phantasy] reduces it to causal, primitive, instinctive processes. Adler's conception reduces it to the final, elementary aims of the self. The former is an instinctive psychology, the latter an ego-psychology.

1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers II. 167 It is..likely that the wish for a man arises independently of the wish for a child, and that when—from obvious motives derived exclusively from ego-psychology—it does arise an unconscious reinforcement of libido from the original penis-wish becomes attached to it.

1934 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 15 299 (heading) Postulates to serve as a basis for an ego psychology.

1969 P. A. Robinson Freudian Left i. 19 Those schools of psychoanalysis which have abandoned or radically attenuated the libido theory (neo-Freudianism and, increasingly, ego-psychology).

1981 B. A. Farrell Standing of Psychoanal. ii. 23 There were others who kept the libido theory and developed Freud's own later emphasis on the Ego, in order to develop what is known as ‘Ego-Psychology’.

1969 P. A. Robinson Freudian Left i. 11 The later generation of revisionists and ego-psychologists who began their work in the 1930's (Fromm, Horney, Sullivan,..[etc.]).

1985 C. Rycroft Psychoanal. & Beyond ii. 55 Ego-psychologists subscribe to instinct theory and emphasise how we learn to master our impulses.