19 definitions
Art (n.) is life's dream interpretation.
Autoerotism (n.) is satisfaction with no object at all, not even an imaginary one — an emission while a tooth is pulled.
The Birth trauma (n.) cannot be the source of childhood phobias, Freud argued against Rank: an infant retains no visual impressions of birth, and the theory invites arbitrary interpretation.
Birth trauma (n.) cannot be what anxiety discharges, or neurotics would grow healthier the more panic they relived, which is absurd.
Birth trauma (n.) was Otto Rank's master key to neurosis: analyse the shock of being born, he hoped, and the rest would take care of itself.
The Double (n.) was first an insurance against death, an energetic denial of its power; once narcissism is surmounted it reverses into the uncanny harbinger of death.
Dream symbolism (n.) lays a stack of meanings into water over a life: urine, then semen, then amniotic fluid.
Finding (n.) is as determined as losing: unconscious readiness to look for something succeeds far better than conscious attention — of hundreds in the dark crowd, only the girl short two kronen found the two-kronen note.
Love (n.) forbidden to speak finds the slip: Portia, bound by her vow, tells Bassanio “One half of me is yours, the other half yours — mine own, I would say.”
A Mother (n.) is the earth in the ancient oracles: Caesar's dream of lying with his mother foretold his taking possession of the world.
A Parvenu (n.) like the tailor who married the princess still dreams of his needle — and his wife posts guards to listen to his sleep-talk.
Poetry (n.) takes incest, in countless variations and distortions, as its subject-matter.