Posted: Dec 17, 2017 12:12 pm
Thommo wrote:Can you give an example of such a pairing of experience with something specific from Freud's work?
Go on then I'll bite - but that's not really what I meant by "experience". When I first moved to Bristol from Gloucester my mother drove me and my girlfriend there in a car full of our belongings. When we arrived at the letting agent's to pick up the keys to our new yard they told us "sorry; it's fallen through; we're going to have to put you up somewhere else for a few nights." Stress. I then started obsessively worrying about how Steve Backley had only won silver in the Olympic javelin competition...I couldn't get it out of my head - couldn't concentrate on anything else for the next 30 mins or so. I believe Freud identified this as the defence mechanism he termed "displacement".