The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 70
... existence of the compulsive - neurotic . Rather was he a Bohemian who lived in a chaotic home and handled his books so carelessly and negligently that they looked the worse for wear . I shall revert to this subject later in this book ...
... existence of the compulsive - neurotic . Rather was he a Bohemian who lived in a chaotic home and handled his books so carelessly and negligently that they looked the worse for wear . I shall revert to this subject later in this book ...
Page 130
... existence is called neurotic reduction . The neurotic solution to the existential con- flict does not aim at resistance to the conflict in an effort to create by courage the highest possible degree of freedom and existential ...
... existence is called neurotic reduction . The neurotic solution to the existential con- flict does not aim at resistance to the conflict in an effort to create by courage the highest possible degree of freedom and existential ...
Page 164
... existence ( which Johnson called " the Mountain of Existence " ) , he presented in almost modern psychodynamic terms an outline of conflicting mental forces : the positive , libe- rating forces that promote development , hampered by the ...
... existence ( which Johnson called " the Mountain of Existence " ) , he presented in almost modern psychodynamic terms an outline of conflicting mental forces : the positive , libe- rating forces that promote development , hampered by the ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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