Psychoanalysis
Hi
Here's a sentence from the book 'Studies On Hysteria' in which Freud is describing his new method:
‘[Our method] brings to an end the operative force of the idea which was not abreacted in the first instance, by allowing its strangulated affect to find a way through to speech; and it subjects it to associative corrected by introducing it into normal consciousness'
Well, shouldn't it have been '...subjects it to association corrected by...' or '...subjects it to associative correction by...'? What is it that I don't understand?
Thanks in advance
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Arman Mahdavi What is it that I don't understand? Well, it is translated from a scientific German style into a Victorian English style. It uses technical vocabulary such as "abreacted" which was invented by Freud.
- Arman Mahdavi What is it that I don't understand?
- Well, it is translated from a scientific German style into a Victorian English style.
- It uses technical vocabulary such as "abreacted" which was invented by Freud.
- The best I can paraphrase it is this.
- It (the hypnotic state) allows the idea to be verbalized and thus subjects it (the idea which was not abreacted) to associative correction (this is the basis of the Freudian analytic process)
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Arman MahdaviWhat is it that I don't understand?
Well, it is translated from a scientific German style into a Victorian English style. It uses technical vocabulary such as "abreacted" which was invented by Freud.
The best I can paraphrase it is this.
It (the hypnotic state) allows the idea to be verbalized and thus subjects it (the idea which
0The text has been mistyped. It should say "correction" not "corrected".
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