2755. Brown, Norman wrote: But the Freudian revolution is not limited to the hypothesis of an unconscious psychic life in the human being in addition to his conscious life. The other crucial hypothesis is that some unconscious ideas in a human being are incapable of becoming conscious to him in the ordinary way, because they are strenuously disowned and resisted by the conscious self. From this point of view Freud can say that the whole of psychoanalytic theory is in fact built up on the perception of the resistance exerted by the patient when we try to make him conscious of his unconscious. [Life Against Death] This resistance is anxiety/fear imposing a limit, a survival necessity, to self-preserve. Added to this individual resistance we have the communal, social, cultural, resistance to self-awareness. Overestimation, and less often, underestimation, being expressions of this resistance. Within my contexts this resistance is the rejection of the phenomenon, by the noesis, or its replacement by the noumenon (abstraction) = truth. Truth = Absolute, the final truth - absolute subjectivity; objective/subjective harmony, ideal/real convergence. The intuitive resisting the counter-intuitive, which is forever mysterious and only sensed...as in a psychic, neurotic, sensation, expressed through dreams and schizophrenic behavior. Another way to express the same idea is as the discrepancy between real and idea(l); the mind settling for the most flattering, easy, soothing middle-ground: God who loves but demands discipline, or the idea(l) requiring a leap of faith, a sacrifice of reason, a submission to the symbol.
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