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“The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.”

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This book compiles a selection of significant papers that explore various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice. more

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Karl Abraham

Karl Abraham was a prominent psychoanalyst, born on May 3, 1877, and died on December 25, 1925. He made significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis, particularly in the development of psychoanalytic theory. more

“Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.”

Long Has Beens Different Form Choices Individual Difficult Conditions Disease Long Time Determine Illness Psychological Impulse Neurotic Selected Difficult Questions

Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

“Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.”

States Normal Instinct Patient Exhibits Manic Inhibitions

Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

“How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?”

Fall Justice Victim

Author:Philip K. Dick

“A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.”

Knows Want Children Two Today Lying Asks Adults Decades My Children Wisest

Book:The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

“In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.”

My Own Authority Rebellion Rebel Resent

Book:Vintage PKD

Source: Vintage PKD

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.”

World Humans Different Human Beings Solitude Unique

Book:I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.”

Men Funny Faces Situation Comedy Crazy Affair Silly Tails Bulls There Comes A Time

Author:W. C. Fields

“The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.”

People Ifs Want Wisdom Speak If I Could Clown Wisest

Book:Vintage PKD

Source: Vintage PKD

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