ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic theory in Sigmund Freud's last years and after his death was in a state of fermenting diversity. This chapter presents the work three major thinkers on affects—Ernest Jones, Marjorie Brierley, and Edward Glover. Jones, Freud's disciple, interpreter, and coworker, contributed greatly to the explication and propagation of Freud's ideas. He emphasized the extensiveness of Freudian theory and the mutual confirmation obtaining between it and other fields of study. In the 1930s and 1940s, Brierley was an important figure among psychoanaltyic thinkers in London. Her work represents one of the most sustained efforts to come to grips with the pressing problems exposed by the Controversial Discussions, by the beginnings of ego psychology, and by the growing realization of the intricate relation between theory and practice in psychoanalysis. Two years after Brierley's paper, Glover presented his paper on affects, "The Psychoanalysis of Affects". Like Jones and Brierley, Glover attached great importance to affects in psychoanalytic theory.
