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scotomization Psychol.|skəʊtəmaɪˈzeɪʃən| [a. F. scotomisation (Pichon & Laforgue in R. Laforgue Le Rêve et la Psychoanalyse (1926) vii. 184), f. Gr. σκοτ-οῦν to darken, make dim-sighted: see -ization.] (See quot. 1927.) So ˈscotomize v. trans.; ˈscotomized ppl. a.
1927R. Laforgue in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-Anal. VIII. 473 In an earlier work I have defined scotomization (or the forming of mental ‘blind spots’) as a process of psychic depreciation, by means of which the individual attempts to deny everything which conflicts with his ego. Ibid. 477 If he scotomizes them [sc. such stimuli as do not belong to the field of consciousness],..they seek for gratification in narcissistic compensations, and force him to a compensatory activity whose scotomized sources are hidden from him. 1954Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XLV. 233 This criticism [of horrific test pictures] does not imply any scotomization of the capacity of the child..to conceive of the horrible. 1969P. A. Robinson Freudian Left 145 The functionalists concluded from the mere fact that a culture existed that it..functioned harmoniously. They would thus ‘scotomize’ all of those psychoanalytic facts which drew attention to the terrible price we pay for civilization. 1977A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Écrits ii. 22 Freud seems suddenly to fail to recognize the existence of everything that the ego neglects, scotomizes, misconstrues in the sensations that make it react to reality. |