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 156
... reality " . In a letter to Mrs Thrale ( 12 , p . 96 ) we read : " The use travelling is to regulate imagination by reality , and instead of thinking how things may be , to see them as they are " . This is quite consistent with the views ...
... reality " . In a letter to Mrs Thrale ( 12 , p . 96 ) we read : " The use travelling is to regulate imagination by reality , and instead of thinking how things may be , to see them as they are " . This is quite consistent with the views ...
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 ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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