psychic apparatus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of psychic apparatus
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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By means of the perceptions of pleasure and pain, it influences the course of the occupations within the psychic apparatus, which normally operates unconsciously and through the displacement of quantities.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
It thus appears that we can describe the tasks and performances of the psychic apparatus in different and more generalized terms than by the emphasis of the pursuit of pleasure.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
If we now follow our scheme of the psychic apparatus, we can localize a wish of the first order in the system Forec.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
In the psychoses these modes of operation of the psychic apparatus, which are normally suppressed in the waking state, reassert themselves, and then betray their inability to satisfy our wants in the outer world.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
We may only venture to say that pleasurable excitation in some way involves lessening, lowering or obliterating the amount of stimuli present in the psychic apparatus.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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