41 definitions
The book's index
The Unconscious
31 concepts · 41 definitions
- abstraction1
- affect1
- animism1
- anticathexis1
- anxiety2
- brain1
- cathexis1
- comic1
- consciousness3
- emotion1
- fantasy1
- fear1
- guilt1
- hypercathexis1
- illness1
- instinct1
- interpretation1
- meaning1
- metapsychology1
- negation1
- normality1
- other minds1
- phobia1
- self-knowledge1
- subconscious1
- symptom1
- theory1
- thought1
- unconscious7
- the unconscious2
- zeal1
The Unconscious (n.) is timeless: its processes are not ordered in time, not altered by its passage, and pay as little regard to reality as to time.
The Unconscious (n.) knows no contradiction: incompatible wishes exist side by side without cancelling each other, merging into a compromise.
The Unconscious (n.) can only ever be known as something conscious — after it has been translated.
The Unconscious (n.) is not a second consciousness — for then we would need a third, fourth, an unlimited number, all unknown to us and to one another.
Consciousness (n.) is full of gaps: ideas come into our heads we know not whence, conclusions arrive we know not how — they connect only if we interpolate unconscious acts.
Consciousness (n.) is the only attribute of mental life we are directly given, and the least fit to sort it — we must emancipate ourselves from the importance of the symptom of "being conscious."
Consciousness (n.) perceives mental processes as the sense-organs perceive the outer world — Kant's correction extended inward: the psychical is not necessarily what it appears to be.
The Unconscious (n.) holds the thing alone; a conscious presentation is the thing plus its word.
The Unconscious (n.) can react upon another person's unconscious without passing through consciousness.
Anxiety (n.) is the currency into which all repressed affects are exchanged.
Anxiety (n.) that has no object is the first phase of a phobia: a love-impulse that consciousness flees, discharged as fear of one knows not what.
Abstraction (n.) that forgets the relation of words to things begins to resemble the thinking of schizophrenics — who treat concrete things as though they were abstract.
The Comic (n.) is what happens when the primary process is allowed to run its course among conscious ideas — it excites laughter.
Emotion (n.) is never strictly unconscious — it is perceived but misconstrued, attached by repression to the wrong idea.
Fear (n.) fed from an unconscious source proves obdurate and exaggerated against all reasoning — and so betrays where it comes from.
Instinct (n.) can never become conscious — only the idea that represents it can.
Interpretation (n.) told to a patient changes nothing at first: to have heard something and to have experienced it are two quite different things, even when the content is the same.