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War neuroses
Freud, “Psycho-analysis and the War Neuroses” (1919)
“The conflict is between the soldier’s old peaceful ego and his new warlike one, and it becomes acute as soon as the peace-ego realizes what danger it runs of losing its life owing to the rashness of its newly formed, parasitic double. It would be equally true to say that the old ego is protecting itself from a mortal danger by taking flight into a traumatic neurosis or to say that it is defending itself against the new ego which it sees is threatening its life.”
Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1919)
“The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it. Thus he acquires no sense of conviction of the correctness of the construction that has been communicated to him. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of, as the physician would prefer to see, remembering it as something belonging to the past.”
– 1905 Henry HEAD et al. in Brain XXVIII. 106 The position of the point stimulated cannot be recognised and each stimulus causes a widespread radiating sensation... To this form of sensibility we propose to give the name ‘protopathic’
– 1905 Henry HEAD et al. in Brain XXVIII. 107 To this form of sensibility we propose to give the name ‘epicritic’, since it is peculiarly associated with the localisation and discrimination of cutaneous stimuli.
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