Scotomization
Sign in to saveScotomization is a psychological term for the mental blocking of unwanted perceptions, analogous to the visual blindness of an actual scotoma.
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Scotomization is a psychological term for the mental blocking of unwanted perceptions, analogous to the visual blindness of an actual scotoma.
==Controversies== This term initially was used by Charcot in connection with hysteria.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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psychoanalysis
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hallucination
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Jacques Lacan
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hysteria
Disease
fetishism
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Jean-Martin Charcot
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blind spot
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id, ego and super-ego
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denial
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scotoma
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Élisabeth Roudinesco
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gaze
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splitting
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scopophilia
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phenomenological psychology
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Édouard Pichon
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foreclosure
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René Laforgue
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