A General introduction to psychoanalysisBoni and Liveright, 1920 - 406 pages |
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analysis analytic anxiety assertion associations become believe censorship cerning child childhood compulsion conception condition connection conscious Dachstein dementia praecox discover dream censor dream distortion dream element dream interpretation dream symbolism dream-work dreamer egoistic entirely errors example experience explain expression fact factor father fear forced forgetting frequently further genital give husband hysteria idea impression impulses infantile influence instincts intention interfering investigation lady latent dream thoughts later LECTURE libidinous libido manifest content manifest dream marriage meaning mother motive neuroses normal object observation occur onanism opposite organ origin patient perhaps person perverse phantasy phobias physician psychiatry psychic activity psycho psychoanalysis psychological question recognize regression relation representation resistance result satisfaction sex symbols sexual sexual intercourse significance sleep stimuli substitute suppression sure symptoms tell tendency therapy thing tion tongue slips uncon unconscious understand wish wish-fulfillment woman word
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Page 245 - The second blow fell when biological research destroyed man's supposedly privileged place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature. This revaluation has been accomplished in our own days by Darwin, Wallace and their predecessors, though not without the most violent contemporary opposition.
Page 383 - Faith repeats the history of its own origin; it is a derivative of love and at first it needed no arguments. Not until later does it admit them so far as to take them into critical consideration if they have been offered by someone who is loved.
Page 324 - The artist has also an introverted disposition and has not far to go to become neurotic. He is one who is urged on by instinctual needs which are too clamorous; he longs to attain to honour, power, riches, fame, and the love of women; but he lacks the means of achieving these gratifications.
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Page 383 - If the patient is to fight the normal conflict that our analysis has revealed against the suppressions, he requires a tremendous impetus to influence the desirable decision which will lead him back to health. Otherwise, he might decide for a repetition of the former issue and allow those factors which have been admitted to consciousness to slip back again into suppression. The deciding vote in this conflict is not given by his intellectual penetration— which is neither strong nor free enough for...
Page 245 - Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system...
Page 392 - ... suggestions, and proceeds as a normal psychic conflict. By avoiding a new suppression the estrangement between the ego and the libido comes to an end, the psychic unity of the personality is restored. When the libido again becomes detached from the temporary object of the physician it cannot return to its former objects, but is now at the disposal of the ego.
Page 171 - ... daughter sees in her mother the authority which imposes limits to her will, whose task it is to bring her to that renunciation of sexual freedom which society demands ; in certain cases, too, the mother is still a rival, who objects to being set aside. The same thing is repeated still more blatantly between father and son. To the son the father is the embodiment of the social compulsion to which he so unwillingly submits, the person who stands in the way of his following his own will, of his...
Page v - Few, especially in this country, realize that while Freudian themes have rarely found a place on the programs of the American Psychological Association, they have attracted great and growing attention and found frequent elaboration by students of literature, history, biography, sociology, morals and aesthetics, anthropology, education, and religion. They have given the world a new conception of both infancy and adolescence, and shed much new light upon characterology...
Page 20 - I this vow, here pledge myself; My blood shall spurt out for this Wallenstein, And my heart drain off, drop by drop, ere ye Shall revel and dance jubilee o'er his ruin. (Exit.) SCENE V.