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=Freudian Dictionary=
INHIBITION-Inhibition is the expression of a functionallim. itation of the ego--a limitation which may have a large variety of causes. PoA-ch. 1
One may say of inhibitions, in fine, that they [[represent]] a limitation and restriction of ego functions, either precautionary or resulting from an impoverishment of [[energy]]. PoA-ch.l
The more general inhibitions of the ego follow a simple [[mechanism]]. When the ego is occupied with a [[psychic]] task of special difficulty, as for example by [[mourning]], a wholesale [[suppression]] of [[affect]], or by the [[necessity]] for holding constantly mounting [[sexual]] [[fantasies]] in check, it becomes so impoverished with respect to the energy available to it that it is driven to restrict its expenditure in many places at the same [[time]] like a speculator who has tied up his [[money]] in his various enterprises.
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Inhibition and [[Anxiety]]-Many inhibitions are an obvious [[renunciation]] of function, because the exercise of the function would give rise to anxiety. PoA-ch. 1
Inhibition, Occupational-Inhibition in the field of occupation, which so often becomes a matter of [[treatment]] as an isolated [[symptom]], is evidenced in diminished [[pleasure]] in [[work]], or in its poor execution, or in such reactive manifestations as fatigue ([[vertigo]], [[vomiting]]) if the [[subject]] forces himself to go on [[working]]. [[Hysteria]] compels the suspension of work by producing [[paralysis]] of organs and functions, the [[existence]] of which is incompatible with the carrying on of work. Tbe [[compulsion]] [[neurosis]] interferes with work by a continuous distraction of the attention and by [[loss]] of time in the [[form]] of procrastination and [[repetition]]. [Certain] inhibitions evidently subserve a [[desire]] for [[self]]-[[punishment]], as for example not infrequently those in the sphere of vocational [[activity]]. The ego dares not do certain things because they would bring an advantage and a success which the strict [[superego]] has [[forbidden]]. Thereupon the ego renounces these activities also, in [[order]] not to become involved in [[conflict]] with the superego.
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Inhibition, Specific-In the [[case]] of certain [[particular]] inhibitions the trend expressed is rather easily recognized. When playing the piano, [[writing]], and even [[walking]] are made the subject of [[neurotic]] inhibition, [[analysis]] reveals as the basis thereof an excessive erotization of the [[organ]] involved in the function in question, the fingers and the feet. (Cf. also Walking, Writing.) PoA-ch. 1
Inhibition vs. Symptom-It is easy to see wherein an inhibition differs from a symptom. A symptom can no longer be described as a [[process]] taking [[place]] either in or around the ego. PoA-ch.l
The two [[concepts]] are not rooted in the same soil. Inhibition relates specifically to function and does not necessarily denote something pathological; a normal restriction or reduction of a function may also be termed an inhibition of it. To [[speak]] of a symptom, on the [[other]] hand, is tantamount to indicating a morbid process. Thus an inhibition may also be a symptom. Our habits of [[speech]] are such, then, as [[cause]] us to speak of an inhibition when a simple reduction of function is [[present]], of a symptom when it is a question of an unusual alteration of function or of a new modality thereof. In many cases it seems to be perfectly [[arbitrary]] whether one emphasizes the positive or the [[negative]] aspect of a pathological process, whether one [[terms]] its result a symptom or an inhibition.
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