| 单词 | magical thinking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagical thinking magical thinking n. [compare French la pensée magique (1934 (several authors), in Revue Française de Psychanalyse 7)] Psychology and Psychoanalysis the belief (specially characteristic of early childhood and of many mental illnesses) that thoughts, wishes, or special but causally irrelevant actions can cause or influence external events; thinking founded on this belief. ΚΠ 1930 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 3 504 Test for the determination of bias, prejudice, and magical thinking in adult and school population. A. O. Bowden, State Teachers College, Silver City, New Mexico. 1929. 1939 H. V. Dicks Clin. Stud. Psychopathol. 75 We note the..displacement from the significant and unbearable to the trivial and bearable, a feature also common to other psychoneuroses, but in obsessional cases mostly derived from the normal magical thinking of early childhood. 1971 H. Kohut Anal. Self xii. 305 In persons who have formed strong reaction formations against magical thinking..the increase in rationality which the analysis of the mobilized narcissism provides, may result in greater freedom. 1990 J. Bradshaw Homecoming i. 14 Dysfunctional parents often reinforce their children's magical thinking. < as lemmas |
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