ires.
_Inhibition:_ Restraint (Special) limitation of function, physical or
ideational, due to unconscious emotional attitudes.
_Libido:_ Life-force, elan vital, or (restricted) the energy of the
sex-instinct.
_Neurosis:_ Used loosely for psycho-neurosis or nervous disorder.
_Obsession:_ A compulsive idea inaccessible to reason.
_Oedipus Complex:_ Over-strong bond between mother and son, or (more
loosely) between father and daughter.
_Over-determined:_ Used of an impulse made over-strong by lack of
discharge, with accumulation of emotional tension from added factors.
_Phobia:_ A persistent, unreasoning fear of some object or situation.
_Psycho-neurosis:_ "A perversion of normal (psychic) reactions,"
(Prince); a general term for functional dissociation of the
personality, resulting in: psychasthenia--disturbed ideation;
neurasthenia--disturbed emotions; hysteria--disturbed motor or sensory
activity.
_Psychotherapy:_ Treatment by psychic or mental measures.
_Rationalization:_ The process of substituting a plausible, false
explanation for a repressed, unconscious desire.
_Repression:_ Expulsion from consciousness of a pain-provoking mental
process.
_Resistance:_ The force which impedes the return of a repressed
complex to consciousness.
_Subconscious:_ That part of the mind of which one is unaware; the
storehouse of memories ancestral and personal.
_Sublimation:_ The act of freeing sex-energy from definitely sexual
aims; utilization of sex-energy for nonsexual ends.
_Suggestion:_ The process by which any idea, true or false, takes hold
of one; the idea may enter the mind consciously or unconsciously,
through reason or through impulse.
_Symbol:_ An object or an attitude which stands for an ides or a
quality; (Special) that which stands for or represents some
unconscious mental process.
_Threshold_ (door-sill): A figure which represents the level of the
barrier erected by the mind against the perception of an idea or
sensation.
_Transference:_ Unconscious identification of a present personal
relationship with an earlier one, with conveyance of the earlier
emotional attitudes (hostile or affectionate) to the present
relationship.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS ON THE GENERAL LAWS OF BODY AND MIND
Cannon, Walter B: Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger,
Fear and Rage.
Crile, George W.: The Origin and Nature of the Emotions.
Coe, George Albert: The Psychology of Religion.
Hudson, T
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