67 definitions
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Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (Rat Man)
56 concepts · 67 definitions
- absurdity1
- ambivalence1
- chance2
- coincidence1
- compulsion3
- conviction2
- delirium1
- denial1
- discretion1
- dissimulation1
- Distortion1
- doubt1
- ellipsis1
- endopsychic perception1
- epistemophilic instinct1
- fear1
- generalization1
- hatred1
- hysteria1
- illness1
- illogical1
- indecision1
- indeterminacy1
- knowledge1
- logic1
- love1
- magical thinking1
- magnanimity1
- masturbation1
- moral responsibility1
- neurosis1
- note-taking1
- obsession4
- obsessional doubt1
- obsessional idea1
- obsessional neurosis4
- oedipus complex1
- parent1
- paternity1
- philosopher1
- pleasure1
- Pompeii1
- prayer1
- procrastination1
- question1
- rationalization1
- resistance1
- sanction1
- self-reproach1
- smell1
- suffering1
- superstition2
- transference1
- uncertainty1
- unconscious1
- verbal bridge1
The Obsession (n.) is one undertaken with the energy normally reserved for action, because of inhibition at the motor end: it represents an act regressively.
Obsession (n.) is the better term, since obsessional structures may be wishes, temptations, impulses, reflections, doubts, commands or prohibitions.
An Obsession (n.) shaken off returns distorted and better able to hold its ground: recurring obsessions are often one and the same in different words.
An Obsession (n.) keeps its first occurrence receding as analysis proceeds, because obsessional ideas are formations of very long standing.
Obsessional neurosis (n.) is formed in infantile, not present, sexual life: premature sexual activity marks every case, more plainly than in hysteria.
Obsessional neurosis (n.) musters four parts: an erotic instinct and a revolt against it, a wish not yet compulsive, a fear already compulsive, and an urge to defend.
Obsessional neurosis (n.) speaks only a dialect of the language of hysteria, closer to conscious thought and free of the leap into bodily innervation, yet harder to understand.
The Obsessional neurosis (n.) splits into three: an unconscious personality of passionate impulses, and two preconscious ones, a sensible self and a superstitious, ascetic self.
A Compulsion (n.) that undoes itself in two steps is a contest of two nearly equal impulses, and Freud always found them to be love and hate.
Compulsion (n.) appears when the ego sets itself fully against a wish and treats it as foreign to itself; before that the wish is not yet compulsive.
Compulsion (n.) is an attempt to compensate for doubt: once displacement brings an inhibited intention to decision, the dammed-up energy insists it be carried out, and failure brings anxiety.
Chance (n.) decides for the obsessional when arguments balance exactly: he lets chance events decide as though by the hand of God.
Chance (n.) may help form a symptom just as wording helps make a joke.
Conviction (n.) is won in the school of suffering that is the transference, though the truth was obvious to anyone disinterested.
Conviction (n.) is never the aim of analytic discussions; they bring repressed complexes into consciousness, and conviction comes only after the patient works over the material himself.
Superstition (n.) projects into the outer world causal connections that repression has severed, where they bear witness to what was effaced.
Superstition (n.) is double in the obsessional: he is at once superstitious and not, his belief swelling and shrinking with his resistance.
Illness (n.) never has unintended results: what looks like its consequence, a convenient inability to work, is really its motive.
Pompeii (n.) shows how the unconscious keeps things: buried, they were preserved; their destruction began only when they were dug up.
Ambivalence (n.) becomes, in the obsessional, a chronic coexistence of intense love and hatred for one person: love has not destroyed hatred but driven it into the unconscious, where it grows.
Discretion (n.) has a paradox: a patient's most intimate secrets can be told safely; it is the trivial facts that would give him away.