The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 142
... reality testing ; it is the discipline of the aware personality , who disillusions deli- berately , confronting imaination with reality ( " regulating the imagination by reality " ) . On another occasion Johnson formu- lated resistance ...
... reality testing ; it is the discipline of the aware personality , who disillusions deli- berately , confronting imaination with reality ( " regulating the imagination by reality " ) . On another occasion Johnson formu- lated resistance ...
Page 159
... reality . Through his neurotic defence he will feel even more unhappy in his neurotic fictions than if he had resisted these influences and had not tried to avoid confrontations with reality in the form of disappointments and deceptions ...
... reality . Through his neurotic defence he will feel even more unhappy in his neurotic fictions than if he had resisted these influences and had not tried to avoid confrontations with reality in the form of disappointments and deceptions ...
Page 168
... reality , against which the neurotic feels power- less , with which he cannot cope , which makes him depressed ... reality cruelly upsets his imagery , deprives him of his illusions and confronts him again with the unattractiveness of ...
... reality , against which the neurotic feels power- less , with which he cannot cope , which makes him depressed ... reality cruelly upsets his imagery , deprives him of his illusions and confronts him again with the unattractiveness of ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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