The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Karl AbrahamWhereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
Karl AbrahamThe myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.
Karl AbrahamA considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
Karl AbrahamEven in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
Karl AbrahamPsychoanalysts 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.
Karl AbrahamAnyone 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.
Karl AbrahamPsychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Karl AbrahamBoth 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.
Karl AbrahamA 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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