RHETOR 103B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Libido, Relief, Sigmund Freud
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Author disavows a portrayal of reality by calling his tale a fancy (169) But it would be suitable if his book were called not a fancy but a study in psychiatry (169) Did we weave secret meanings into the tale? (171) But have tried to refrain from interpretations by reproducing the story closely (171) Author concerned with the personal, psychic state which gives rise to such a delusion (174) Incomplete eroticism of child life is expressed (175) Effects of seeing the bas relief proceeds from the connection with his childhood > the impression becomes active but remains in the unconscious (177) Everything that is repressed is unconscious; but we cannot assert that everything unconscious is repressed (178) The repressive material is characterized by the fact that it simply cannot break through into the consciousness (178) Repression deals with emotions, but these are most understandable to us in connection with ideas (179)
