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"Isolation" =Freudian Dictionary=<blockquote>A [[technique]] peculiar to [[compulsion]] [[neurosis]], is that of ''isolation''. Its reference is likewise to the motor sphere; and it consists in the defense mechanism characteristic interposition, after an unpleasant [[experience]], as also after some act of obsessional the [[subject]]'s own which is of [[significance]] in the [[sense]] of his neurosis. The links , of a thoughtrefractory period in which [[nothing]] more is allowed to happen, ideano [[perception]] registered, impressionand no [[action]] performed. This at first [[sight]] strange [[behavior]] soon betrays its relation to [[repression]]. The effect of this isolation is the same, or feeling as in repression with other thoughts or behaviors are broken amnesia. The isolation phenomena of compulsion neurosis reproduce this technique, but intensified by motor means and with a [[magic]] intent motor isolation is to furnish a guaranty of pauses, rituals, magical formulas, or other such devicesthe interruption of [[coherence]] in [[thinking]].<ref>{{PoA}} Ch.6</ref></blockquote>

 =Below= "Isolation" is the [[defense]] [[mechanism]] characteristic of [[obsessional]] neurosis. The [[links]] of a [[thought]], [[idea]], impression, or [[feeling]] with [[other]] [[thoughts]] or behaviors are broken by means of pauses, [[rituals]], magical [[formulas]], or other such devices. In "The Neuro-[[Psychoses ]] of Defense," [[Freud ]] conceived of defense, in [[hysteria ]] as well as in phobias and obsessions, as a [[form ]] of isolation: "defense against the incompatible idea [is] effected by separating it from its [[affect]]; the idea itself [remains] in [[consciousness]], even though weakened and...