So saying he reached forth with his hands, yet clasped him not; but the spirit like a vapour was gone beneath the earth, gibbering faintly, and seized, with amazement, Achilles sprang up and smote his hands together, and spake a word of wailing “Look you now, even in the house of Hades is the spirit and phantom somewhat, albeit the mind be not anywise therein; for the whole night long hath the spirit of hapless Patroclus stood over me, weeping and wailing, and gave me charge concerning each thing, and was wondrously like his very self.” Illiad XXIIII 99-107
The ending of conflict by means of symptom development is the path of least resistance. Nervousness is not anxiety that sexual constraints go hand with Freud’s hands.
The subjective condition regardless of any object, caused by perception is the emotional evolution of fear.
Fear
- Essentially directed toward an object
- Real fear – Appears first during the separation from the mother
- Ego reaction to danger or fright – The emphasis on the effects of a danger which is precipitated without any expectancy
- The only purposeful behaviour is the cool appraisal of strengths in comparison to danger – then the decision of flight/defence/attack
- Repeat the experience of birth – ever after repeated under fear
- The first fear was toxic birth is the source
- prototype of fear
- By education
- Factors – Expectancy of danger
- Sensory attention and motor tension
- condition of fear
Then there gathered from out of Erebus the spirits of those that are dead, brides, and unwedded youths, and toil-worn old men, and tender maidens with hearts yet new to sorrow, and many, too, that had been wounded with bronze-tipped spears, men slain in fight, wearing their blood-stained armour. These came thronging in crowds about the pit from every side, with a wondrous cry. Odyssey XI 36-43
The psychoanalysis of Freud to emotion is complex – The emotional condition has a structure similar to a hysterical attack. The thread that binds together is the repetition of certain significant experiences that may belong to the antecedent history of species. Emotion indefinite motor discharges, the definite sensations are pain/pleasure.
So saying the spirit of the prince, Teiresias, went back into the house of Hades, when he had declared his prophecies. Odyssey XI
Neuro-fear
- Rational and comprehensible reaction to the perception of danger that is expected
- Tendency to anticipate disasters
- Misused libido
- Influence judgment
- The general condition of anxiety
- Interpret every coincidence as an Evil omen
- Ascribe a dreadful meaning to all Uncertainty
- Ready to attach itself to any appropriate idea
So I spoke, and the spirit of the son of Aeacus departed with long strides over the field of asphodel, joyful in that I said that his son was preeminent. And other spirits of those dead and gone stood sorrowing, and each asked of those dead to him. Alone of them the spirit of Aias, son of Telamon, stood apart, still full of wrath for the victory that I had won over him in the contest by the ships for the arms of Achilles. Odyssey XI