Primitivity (Psychoanalysis) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 2002041423: Brickman, Celia. Aboriginal populations in the mind : race and primitivity in psychoanalysis, 2003: p. 4 ("But primitivity in psychoanalysis is hardly a disinterested term signifying the earliest and often repressed stage of psychic development, as is often assumed. That the term primitive functioned for Freud both as a psychological category and as an anthropological one points to its location at the intersection of numerous colonial signifiers that converged, at the turn of the last century, on the topic of race.") p. 5 ("Because the concept of primitivity in psychoanalytic thought correlates a psychological with an anthropological meaning, it allows us to investigate how evolutionary and racially inflected anthropological assumptions found in Freud's cultural works were absorbed into his metapsychological formulations to become constitutive elements of his representations of subjectivity.") p. 112 ("the psychoanalytic figuration of primitivity as representing an incomplete psychic structure that renders the raced subject unable to participate in the responsibilities and privileges of civil society continues to articulate uncomfortably well with the exclusions that sustain local and global systems of social, economic, and political inequity.")

Corsini Dict. of psych. (primitive: in psychoanalytic theory, earliest stages in the development of the psyche.)

Eidelberg, L. Encyc. of psychoanalysis: p. 329 (primitive)

Web. 3 (primitivity: primitiveness, quality or state of being primitive)