This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

C. P. OBERNDORF, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1944;32(6):443-446.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In everyday speech, and especially in slang, one encounters terms which indicate that common people recognize the influence of emotional response on bodily sensation. Such expressions as "eyes bulging" (with fear or desire), "kill with a look" or "I can't see him" are vivid examples of commonly known reactions associated with the eye.

A mechanism known in psychoanalytic theory as displacement consists in the moving of genital affects from a primary object or function to a secondary one. When displaced associations become attached with sufficient tenacity to the secondary object, the latter may assume the functions of the first and may eventually become a welcome substitute for the primary one in fulfilling certain emotional needs of the organism. Such substitutes are utilized in the unconsciousness of sleep or unconsciously in the waking state.

During waking hours substitutions springing from the unconscious as a result of a persistent and constant repression . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

Footnotes
Read at a meeting of the Section on Ophthalmology of the New York Academy of Medicine April 17, 1944.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?