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Scotomization

Index Scotomization

Scotomization is a psychological term for the mental blocking of unwanted perceptions, analogous to the visual blindness of an actual scotoma. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 18 relations: Édouard Pichon, Élisabeth Roudinesco, Blind spot (vision), Fetishism, Foreclosure (psychoanalysis), Gaze, Hallucination, Hysteria, Id, ego and superego, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Martin Charcot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Phenomenology (psychology), Psychoanalysis, René Laforgue, Scopophilia, Scotoma, Splitting (psychology).

  2. Abnormal psychology
  3. Defence mechanisms

Édouard Pichon

Édouard Pichon (24 June 1890 – 20 January 1940) was a French pediatrician, grammarian and psychoanalyst.

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Élisabeth Roudinesco

Élisabeth Roudinesco (Rudinescu; born 10 September 1944) is a French scholar, historian and psychoanalyst.

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Blind spot (vision)

A blind spot, scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field.

See Scotomization and Blind spot (vision)

Fetishism

A fetish (derived from the French fétiche, which comes from the Portuguese feitiço, and this in turn from Latin facticius, 'artificial' and facere, 'to make') is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others.

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Foreclosure (psychoanalysis)

In psychoanalysis, foreclosure (also known as "foreclusion"; forclusion) is a specific psychical cause for psychosis, according to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

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Gaze

In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself.

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Hallucination

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus that has the compelling sense of reality.

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Hysteria

Hysteria is a term used to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion.

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Id, ego and superego

In psychoanalytic theory, the id, ego and superego are three distinct, interacting agents in the psychic apparatus, defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche.

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Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.

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Jean-Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

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Phenomenology (psychology)

Phenomenology or phenomenological psychology, a sub-discipline of psychology, is the scientific study of subjective experiences.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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René Laforgue

René Laforgue (5 November 18946 March 1962) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

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Scopophilia

In psychology and psychiatry, scopophilia or scoptophilia (σκοπέω skopeō, "look to", "to examine" + φῐλῐ́ᾱ philíā, "the tendency towards") is an aesthetic pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person.

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Scotoma

A scotoma is an area of partial alteration in the field of vision consisting of a partially diminished or entirely degenerated visual acuity that is surrounded by a field of normal – or relatively well-preserved – vision.

See Scotomization and Scotoma

Splitting (psychology)

Splitting (also called binary thinking, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, or thinking in extremes) is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole. Scotomization and Splitting (psychology) are Defence mechanisms.

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See also

Abnormal psychology

Defence mechanisms

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotomization