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<blockquote>Most of the "pain" we experience is of a perceptual order, perception either of the urge of unsatisfied instincts or of something in the external world which may be painful in itself or may arouse painful anticipations in the psychic apparatus and is recognized by it as "danger."<ref>{{BPP}} Ch. 1</ref></blockquote>
==Pain, Physical==
<blockquote>Pain-primarily and as a rule-occurs if a stimulus impinging on the periphery breaks through the defenses that oppose stimuli of excessive strength and hence acts like a continuous instinctual stimulus against which otherwise efficacious muscular activity such as serves to remove the stimulated region from the stimulus remains powerless. If the pain does not originate from a point on the skin but from an internal organ, this does not alter the situation in any way; it is only that a bit of the internal periphery has replaced the external. ... In the case of physical pain there arises an intense cathexis, which may be termed narcissistic, of the painful region of the body - a cathexis which increases progressively and which acts upon the ego in a so to speak evacuative manner.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 11</ref></blockquote>
==Pain, Psychic==
<blockquote>It certainly cannot be without signficance that language has created the concept of inward, of psychic, pain, and has equated the sensations attendant upon object loss with physical pain.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 11</ref></blockquote>
The term "pain" refers to a physical sensation or a distress linked to instinctual tension, which the psychic apparatus then seeks to discharge by work according to the principle of pleasure/unpleasure.
Cathexis; Dead mother complex; Elisabeth von R. case of; Erotogenic masochism; Guilt, unconscious sense of; Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety; Masochism; Melancholia; Mourning; Physical pain/psychic pain; Pleasure/unpleasure principle; Protective shield, breaking through the; Psychosomatic limit/boundary; "Project for a Scientific Psychology, A"; Quota of affect; Sadism; Sadomasochism; Self-mutilation in children; Suffering; Unpleasure.
