Sublime

Breuer comprit enfin pourquoi il n’avait pas décrit à Nietzsche la vision qu’il avait eue pendant sa transe, dans laquelle Bertha marchait côte à côte avec le Dr Durkin. Cette expérience puissante l’avait délivré d’elle. Or c’était exactement ce dont Nietzsche avait besoin : non pas qu’on lui décrive l’expérience d’une autre personne, ni qu’il en a

Well then I think psychology after the Red Book has to be based on the fantasy image.

Freud finds the root of these distressing disorders in the anxiety caused by conflicting and unconscious motives. Frankl distinguishes several forms of neurosis, and traces some of them (the noögenic neuroses) to the failure of the sufferer to find meaning and a sense of responsibility in his existence. Freud stresses frustration in the sexual life

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.

John Bowlby, an anthropologist and psychoanalyst, studied patterns of attachment between mothers and children and came up with four basic schemas: free/autonomous, dismissing, enmeshed-ambivalent, and disorganized.

On the contrary, we must maintain that the psychic trauma or the memory of the same acts like a foreign body which even long after its penetration must be considered as an agent of the present, the proof of which we see in a most remarkable phenomenon, which at the same time adds to our discoveries a distinctly practical interest.

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

It is quite evident that in "traumatic" hysteria it is the accident which evokes the syndrome.