Vicedo, Marga (Author)
Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood in the context of social concern about the mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued that many psychopathologies were caused by a disruption in the mother-infant bond. Lorenz extended his work on imprinting to humans and argued that maternal care was also instinctual. The conjunction of psychoanalysis and ethology helped shore up the view that the mother-child dyad rests on an instinctual basis and is the cradle of personality formation. Amidst the Cold War emphasis on rebuilding an emotionally sound society, these views received widespread attention. Thus Lorenz built on the social relevance of psychoanalysis, while analysts gained legitimacy by drawing on the scientific authority of biology. Lorenz's work was central in a rising discourse that blamed the mother for emotional degeneration and helped him recast his eugenic fears in a socially acceptable way.
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Vicedo, Marga;
(2013)
The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America
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Article
Vicedo, Marga;
(2009)
Mothers, Machines, and Morals: Harry Harlow's Work on Primate Love from Lab to Legend
(/isis/citation/CBB000932850/)
Thesis
Munz, Tania;
(2007)
Of Birds and Bees: Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and the Science of Animals,1908--1973
(/isis/citation/CBB001561473/)
Article
Anna Klassen;
(2021)
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity
(/isis/citation/CBB504631735/)
Article
Brigandt, Ingo;
(2005)
The Instinct Concept of the Early Konrad Lorenz
(/isis/citation/CBB000670734/)
Article
Dewsbury, Donald A.;
(2009)
Samuel Fernberger's Rejected Doctoral Dissertation: A Neglected Resource for the History of Ape Research in America
(/isis/citation/CBB000931964/)
Article
Dewsbury, Donald A.;
(2002)
The Role of Evidence in Interpretations of the Scientific Work of Karl Lashley
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Book
Nicolas Langlitz;
(2020)
Chimpanzee Culture Wars
(/isis/citation/CBB054916365/)
Article
Hugo Viciana;
(2021)
Animal culture: But of which kind?
(/isis/citation/CBB506611709/)
Article
Kressley-Mba, Regina A.;
(2006)
On the Failed Institutionalization of German Comparative Psychology, Prior to 1940
(/isis/citation/CBB000610115/)
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Gray, Liz;
(2014)
Body, Mind and Madness: Pain in Animals in Nineteenth-Century Comparative Psychology
(/isis/citation/CBB001202329/)
Article
Clement Levallois;
(2018)
The Development of Sociobiology in Relation to Animal Behavior Studies, 1946–1975
(/isis/citation/CBB162818555/)
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Alexandra Rutherford;
(2017)
“Making better use of U.S. women” Psychology, Sex Roles, and Womanpower in post-WWII America
(/isis/citation/CBB508833050/)
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Ramsden, Edmund;
Adams, Jon;
(2008-9)
Escaping the Laboratory: The Rodent Experiments of John B. Calhoun and Their Cultural Influence
(/isis/citation/CBB001032583/)
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Vicedo, Marga;
(2012)
Playing the Game: Psychology Textbooks Speak Out about Love
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Munz, Tania;
(2011)
“My Goose Child Martina”
(/isis/citation/CBB001220835/)
Article
Kutschera, Ulrich;
(2005)
Predator-Driven Macroevolution in Flyingfishes Inferred from Behavioural Studies: Historical Controversies and a Hypothesis
(/isis/citation/CBB000933657/)
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Kalikow, Theo J.;
(1976)
Konrad Lorenz's ethological theory, 1939-1943: “Explanations” of human thinking, feeling, and behaviour
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Taschwer, Klaus;
Föger, Benedikt;
(2003)
Konrad Lorenz: Biographie
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Marga Vicedo;
(2023)
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy
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