scotomizev.

1927 R. Laforgue in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 8 477 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.

1969 P. 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.

1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan 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.

2006 G. O. Gabbard in A. M. Cooper Contemp. Psychoanal. in Amer. viii. 193 An unconscious agenda of cleansing the dyad of hatred and aggression may cause the analyst to scotomize the sadism in the transference.

1927 R. Laforgue in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 8 477 They seek for gratification in narcissistic compensations, and force him to a compensatory activity whose scotomized sources are hidden from him.

1995 E. Grosz Space, Time, & Perversion ix. 148 The psychotic's hallucination is not the return of the repressed, i.e., the return of a signifier, but the return of the Real that has never been signified—a foreclosed or scotomized perception, something falling on the subject's psychical blind spot.