This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...second portion he will be climbing out, with gradually reappearing powers, until, at the climax of the scene, he will perceive what it is that has caused the depression, and will dismiss the concept from consciousness. Let us, therefore, take a section of our two pyramids upon which we may represent ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...second portion he will be climbing out, with gradually reappearing powers, until, at the climax of the scene, he will perceive what it is that has caused the depression, and will dismiss the concept from consciousness. Let us, therefore, take a section of our two pyramids upon which we may represent this double nature of the negative scene, thus: In the accompanying figure the base-line, A A, represents, as formerly, the character's outlook at the opening of the play. In the third scene, at d', a negative concept becomes operative, and immediately.all growth that has taken place between A and d begins to disappear, and the character approaches the base-level as far, let us say, as the points d." Here depression reaches its maximum; here the character begins endeavoring consciously to readjust, and to regain his lost powers. He will recall the fact that formerly he possessed them--that formerly he was not depressed--and these memories will constitute positive concepts which will gradually become operative in his psychic fabric, and will build him back to the level at which the negative concept was acquired. This is represented by the points e' in the diagram, where the excision of the concept is viewed as taking place. Immediately growth occurs, bringing the character up to the points or to the level of the fourth scene; and so on. If the reader cares to go into the subject he will find this dual nature of the negative scene admirably--beautifully--illustrated in many of the dream records kept by practicing psychoanalysts. For instance, in one case, a popular account of which appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine for February, 1915, the patient had dreamed continuously for over fourteen years of fighting. Nearly every night he...
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