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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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