The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormalPrince, Morton
Science
The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormal
Prince, Morton
Psychology, Pathological; Subconsciousness
_Type B_: In this class the subject is afflicted with attacks of
_conscious emotion_, most conspicuously and commonly fear, _plus the
same physical disturbances as in type A_, but without any specific idea
in consciousness to which the emotion is related. When we examine
certain favorable subjects like Miss B., B. C. A., H. O. and O. N., in
whom memories of subconscious processes can be obtained by technical
procedures, specific coconscious ideas can be demonstrated during the
attacks of fear. These ideas are those of fear of some specific object.
The emotion pertaining to these ideas _alone_ emerges into
consciousness, the subject remaining unaware of the ideas themselves. In
the case of Miss B. numerous observations of this kind were
recorded.[178] When the obsessing fear constantly recurs it is a
so-called “_anxiety neurosis_,”[179] as I interpret the phenomena.
A typically perfect example of anxiety neurosis was the recurring
attacks of intense anxiety accompanied by a feeling of suffocation and
oppression of the chest experienced by one of my subjects. Investigation
disclosed that the first attack immediately followed a dream which was
forgotten, but recovered in hypnosis. It appeared that in the dream she
was accused by a certain person of certain delinquencies and threatened
with exposure. At this point in the dream she was overcome with fear and
anguish as in the after attacks. It also appeared that previously she
had been and still was apprehensive of this person’s loyalty. By
inference and analogy with the well-established after-phenomena of
dreams (p. 101), we must assume that the dream process still functioned
subconsciously and produced the anxiety attacks.[180]
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