Dénes Lukács is a Hungarian scholar, teacher, psychologist and

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...

. He is known for his study on the

Szondi test The Szondi test is a 1935 nonverbal projective personality test developed by Léopold Szondi. He theorized that people's unconscious choices—such as emotional reactions to photographs—could reveal genetically inherited “drives” that sha ...

and on Imre Hermann (1889-1984)'s theory of Freudian attachment.Wolfgang Berner "Hermann's concept of clinging" in ''Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis'' ed. Peter L. Rudnytsky, Antal Bókay, Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch - 2000 Page 192 "Reviewing Hermann's work, Dénes Lukács (1989) tried to determine why so few subsequent psychoanalytic authors discussed his theory or cited it only in passing."

Works

* ''A " formális választás", mint a gyermek életkori jellegzetességét tükröző próba.'' Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle, 1982 : Abstract 1. Investigated I. Hermann's (1921, 1923) findings that when children choose objects placed in a row according to formal aspects, Ss less than 5 yrs of age take objects from the edge; while children aged 5 yrs and older choose objects from the middle row. * ''Anklammerung–Zirkularität: Hermann und Szondi'': Abstract 1 The monkey child was separated from the mother and housed in a separate cage, where there was a wire imitation mother holding a milk bottle and a second fur imitation, but with no food * ''Fate analysis and the Szondi test: instruments suitable to explore multiplex personality'': Abstract : According to Szondi fate is such an integration of the ancestor's life and the person's own life which is chosen by the ego of the given person and with which the individual identifies (Szondi, 1954).

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