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Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

24 Jul 2013 3 4 180
Wall of Lombardy, New York HWW and Best wishes Regression was the idea that great trauma could cause you to regress to an earlier stage of development. It was an extension of the theory of recapitulation. This theory is best known for the phrase “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,” put simply,m many scientists thought that as the fetus develops in the womb, it changes from a single cell organism into a protomammal, then transforms into a simple primate. Next it becomes a complex primate. Finally turns into a human. Of course, we now know this isn’t remotely true, but it was widely believed similarly Freud described regression as a sort of ‘Involution,” or “a return to earlier phases of sexual life.” ~ Page 210