| 单词 | reality-testing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreality-testing reality-testing n. [after German Realitätsprüfung (1912 in the passage translated in quot. 1925)] Psychoanalysis the objective evaluation of an emotion or thought against real life, as a faculty present in normal individuals but defective in some psychotics; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > in real-life context reality-testing1916 reality test1920 1916 E. Jones tr. S. Ferenczi Contrib. Psycho-anal. 200 Since..this earlier kind of ‘reality-testing’ is incomprehensible to the present ego of the neurotic, there is nothing to prevent its being placed at the disposal of the repression, and used for the presentation of censured feeling- and thought-complexes. 1925 M. N. Searl tr. S. Freud Formulations Two Principles in Mental Functioning in Coll. Papers IV. 16 One mode of thought-activity was split off; it was kept free from reality-testing [Ger. Realitätsprüfung] and remained subordinated to the pleasure-principle alone. 1955 M. Laserowitz Struct. of Metaphysics ii. 72 These then contribute their psychic charge, which both intensifies our feeling of disquietude and weakens our reality-testing abilities. 1974 S. A. Renshon Psychol. Needs & Polit. Behav. iv. 44 The principle of adequate reality testing allows us to come to grips with this problem. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iii. xiv. 347 Both novelists..entered massively into the realm of what Freud called ‘reality testing’, though without the final Freudian wisdom of making friends with the necessity of dying. < as lemmas |
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