Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.
Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.
What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.
Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
Shame has poor memory.
The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out of my control, I don't feel shame about it, because what could I have done? If you're guilty, you can at least try to atone for it or make it better or not do it again. If it's who you are, you can't do much about it except change yourself, and that's pretty hard.
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.
The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."
You think we shouldn't anthropomorphize people?
self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.
The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.
Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion. In fact, that was - at the very beginning of this process, we realized, man, we really don't know very much about this subject so we better do some research. And we started looking around online.
Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
I have three alter egos.
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces
