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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

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The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

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Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

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Karl Abraham

Karl Abraham
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Born: May 3, 1877
Died: December 25, 1925 (aged 48)
Bio: Karl Abraham was an early important and influential German psychoanalyst, and a collaborator of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil'.
Known for:
  1. Dreams and myths
  2. Psychoanalysis And The War Neuroses (1921)
  3. Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
  4. Steam economy in the sugar factory

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