Psychoanalytic Controversy
'Isaacs is best known outside educational circles for her strategic statement of the Kleinian position on phantasy...presented in 1943 during the British Psycho-Analytical Society's heated wartime "Controversial Discussions"'. There she maintained that 'Unconscious phantasies exert a continuous influence throughout life, both in normal and neurotic people', and that in the analytic situation "'the patient's relation to his analyst is almost entirely one of unconscious phantasy'". Isaacs was one of the first to review and challenge Jean Piaget's stages of child development. She has been criticized for the way "her sweeping pan-instinctualism - 'There is no impulse, no instinctual urge or response that is not experienced as unconscious phantasy' - risks reducing the protean content and workings of phantasy to an instinctual aim".
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