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. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
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. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
