| 释义 |
parataxic, a. Psychol.|pærəˈtæksɪk|
[f. para- 1 + taxis 6 + -ic.]
A term used mainly by H. S. Sullivan to describe the mode in which subconscious attitudes or emotions affect overt interpersonal relationships. See also prototaxic a., syntaxic a.
1938H. S. Sullivan in Psychiatry I. 125/2 A parataxic situation, a much more complicated entity in that two of the four or more persons now concerned, while illusory, are real antagonists to any collaboration of A and Mrs. A. Our Mr. A has become multiplex. 1945P. Mullahy in Ibid. VIII. 184/1 With the development of the parataxic mode of symbol activity, the original undifferentiated wholeness, oneness, of experience is broken. 1961J. A. C. Brown Freud & Post-Freudians ix. 168 By a process of what Sullivan describes as ‘parataxic distortion’ one may attribute to others traits taken from significant people in one's past. 1970Hinsie & Campbell Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 4) 222/2 One way to learn what is true and what is parataxic in thinking or feelings about another is to compare one's evaluations with those of others. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. CXXIII. 338 The extent to which a person distorts his perception of the norm for self-acceptance by attributing his own high or low acceptance of self to the average person is termed ‘parataxic distortion’. |