The Theory of schizophrenic negativismJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1912 - 36 pages |
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Page 1 - Ambivalency, which gives to the same idea two contrary feeling tones and invests the same thought simultaneously with both a positive and a negative character.
Page 24 - That the negativistic repelling very often bears the outspoken stamp of the erotic must be due to a root of the negativism being in the sexuality. This is very easily understandable. The sexuality has normally a strong, negativistic component; it shows itself clearest in the opposition of the female against the sexual approach, which we find in animals and also in man, when the sexual act is desired. We know that there is no case of schizophrenia in whose complexes sexuality does not play a prominent...
Page 4 - ... the past or the repressed. It signified lovelessness and automation, but it had a destructive energy or, at least, as in Ibsen, the memory of a destruction. Nolition, "the inability to wish or want anything," is by contrast powerlessness. It is a disease of the will: one cannot do what one wants to. "In the stage between thought and expression an inhibition, a contrary impulse, or a cross impulse can make the action impossible." 18 Without language and will man is a nonentity, an example of negation...
Page 2 - The pressure of thought and other difficulties of action and of thought, through which every reaction becomes painful, (g) The sexuality with its ambivalent feeling tones is also often one of the roots of negativistic reaction. Inner negativism (contrary tendency opposed to the will, and intellectually opposed to the right thoughts) is accounted for, in large part, by ambitendency and...
Page 31 - When a normal person loves something or somebody on account of one quality, but hates them on account of another, the result is not an entirely unitary feeling tone, either the positive or negative outweighing at times." In our dealings with the insane it is very frequently noted that the hate side of this feeling for people which is successfully repressed up to the outbreak of the psychosis, is the only side which makes itself manifest during the mental illness.
Page 21 - ... speak of it without dissembling. For there exists an instinctive tendency to conceal the complex. Normal persons, likewise see to it that their life's wound is not touched upon, and they also often have in misfortune the tendency, to withdraw within themselves, because by contact with others there are so many things that root up the pains, by associations with the complex.