The 4 Steps to Peace of Mind by Henry Kellerman

Author:Henry Kellerman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2007-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

III

WHAT DOES THE SYMPTOM

REALLY MEAN?

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THE SYMPTOM IS A

NEUROTIC WAY TO GRATIFY

THE ORIGINAL WISH

THE WISH CONNECTS TO THE SYMPTOM

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, proposed many grand theories. Many of these were extraordinary, reflecting the heart of the truth about the mind and about the person’s psychological and emotional life. Along with some of his great discoveries, however, were others that turned out not to be useful or even true. Nevertheless, his discoveries about the workings of the mind—especially the unconscious mind—were fabulous, ingenious, and, practically speaking, highly useful.

One of his greatest discoveries focused on the workings of emotional or psychological symptoms. His main discovery about symptoms concerned why they developed and what they meant.

Freud’s first discovery about symptoms was to see that there was a connection between the symptom on the one hand and what the person who was suffering with the symptom wanted, or wished for, on the other. That is to say, Freud saw that there was a direct connection between the person’s original wish (what the person wanted) and the appearance of the symptom.

Then Freud got more specific about the matter of the wish and the symptom, and theorized that not only was there a connection between the person’s original wish and the symptom, but that, in fact, the wish was the symptom and the symptom was the wish. Freud said that if the wish was not met, a symptom would develop. He also discovered that when a person has a symptom, the symptom is really the wish itself, but in disguised form. Thus, any symptom is the translation of the person’s wish in this disguised or neurotic form.

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