From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 10:13:37 MDT
On 4 Sep 2002 at 0:16, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
>
> > The difference between the neurotic and the psychotic is that the
> > neurotic frown quite a lot, while the psychotic smile all the time.
> >
The psychotic frowns a lot because he's not completely crazy, and
knows that something is wrong; the psychotic smiles all the time
because he IS completely crazy, and for him everything is always just
keachy peen.
>
> psychotic: adjective; term indicating gross impairment in recognizing
> reality. The term may be used to describe a person's behavior at a
> given time or a mental disorder in which the person has lost touch
> with reality. The most prominent psychotic symptoms are delusions and
> hallucinations.
>
> PSYCHOSIS: A mental condition whereby the patient completely loses
> touch with reality. Freud originally distinguished between neurosis
> and psychosis in the following way: "in neurosis the ego suppresses
> part of the id out of allegiance to reality, whereas in psychosis it
> lets itself be carried away by the id and detached from a part of
> reality" (5.202).
>
> Reality (Re*al"i*ty) (?), n.; pl. Realities (#).
> [Cf. F. réalité, LL. realitas. See 3d Real. and cf. 2d Realty.]
>
> 1. The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of
> anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. "A man fancies
> that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend
> his meaning." Addison. 2. That which is real; an actual existence;
> that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has
> objective existence, and is not merely an idea. "And to realities
> yield all her shows." Milton. "My neck may be an idea to you, but it
> is reality to me." Beattie.
>
> NEUROSIS (neuroses, neurotic) : The formation of behavioral or
> psychosomatic symptoms as a result of the return of the repressed. A
> neurosis represents an instance where the ego's efforts to deal with
> its desires through repression, displacement, etc. fail: "A person
> only falls ill of a neurosis if his ego has lost the capacity to
> allocate his libido in some way" (Introductory Lectures 16.387). The
> failure of the ego and the increased insistence of the libido lead to
> symptoms that are as bad or worse than the conflict they are designed
> to replace. This term should be carefully distinguished from
> psychosis.
>
> smile (n): a change of facial expression involving a brightening of
> the eyes and an upward curving of the corners of the mouth that may
> express amusement, pleasure, affection, irony, or derision ...
>
> VERB: Inflected forms: frowned, frown·ing, frowns
>
> INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To wrinkle the brow, as in thought or
> displeasure. 2. To regard something with disapproval or distaste:
> frowned on the use of so much salt in the food. TRANSITIVE VERB: To
> express (disapproval, for example) by wrinkling the brow. NOUN: A
> wrinkling of the brow in thought or displeasure; a scowl. ETYMOLOGY:
> Middle English frounen, from Old French froigner, to turn up one's
> nose, from frogne, grimace, of Celtic origin.
>
>
> assume
>
> \As*sume"\, v. i. 1. To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than
> is due. --Bp. Burnet.
>
> 2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to
> suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
>
>
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