10-18-2019, 01:24 PM
The term "resistance" (as translated into English by auntie Annie Freud, I don't remember the original German at this time) was first coined and used in the context of the unconscious by daddy Freud pre-World War I in the course of his psychoanalytic shenanigans, as far as I know (maybe someone used this term, or something similar, before him, I can't really say).
He noticed that his patients would often look for creative ways and go to great lengths to try to disprove or disbelieve what came up in the course of analysis (and sometimes even disagree with him just because, which annoyed him to no end, such a daddy he was
), especially when something repressed or anxiety-inducing would start coming up, as well as seemingly accept certain ideas and concepts in the course of one session, and then apparently "completely forget about them" when the next session would occur.
Funnily enough, I'm noticing multiple instances of resistance reactions in daddy Freud's post-analysis musings that are eerily similar to the "types of resistance" delineated in Shannon's thread on the subject on these here, forums, heh.
Whether you can call it a "fact" is debatable, but it certainly would appear to be a phenomenon of some sort.
He noticed that his patients would often look for creative ways and go to great lengths to try to disprove or disbelieve what came up in the course of analysis (and sometimes even disagree with him just because, which annoyed him to no end, such a daddy he was
), especially when something repressed or anxiety-inducing would start coming up, as well as seemingly accept certain ideas and concepts in the course of one session, and then apparently "completely forget about them" when the next session would occur.Funnily enough, I'm noticing multiple instances of resistance reactions in daddy Freud's post-analysis musings that are eerily similar to the "types of resistance" delineated in Shannon's thread on the subject on these here, forums, heh.
Whether you can call it a "fact" is debatable, but it certainly would appear to be a phenomenon of some sort.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley
