Literary notes about Condensation (AI summary)
Across literature, the word “condensation” has been employed in several interrelated yet distinct ways. In psychoanalytic writings, particularly in Freud’s work, it signifies a process where complex ideas or images are merged into a single, symbolically charged representation within a dream ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]). In contrast, other authors utilize the term to denote the act of summarizing or abridging content, as seen in works that transform sprawling epics into more concise presentations ([10], [11], [12]). Additionally, scientific and philosophical texts extend its meaning to natural phenomena—describing, for instance, the physical process of vapor turning into liquid as well as other forms of convergence or unification ([13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]). Even historical or rhetorical discussions invoke “condensation” to underline the creative amalgamation of ideas, as evidenced by comments in travel literature and philosophical treatises ([20], [21], [22], [23]).
- Although condensation renders the dream opaque, one does not get the impression that it is an effect of dream censorship.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - What is it that serves as something intermediate between tooth and father and makes this condensation possible?
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - If you wish, you may reserve the term "condensation" for this last process alone.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Condensation occurs in the following ways: 1.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The results of condensation may be quite extraordinary.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Condensation may occasionally be absent, but as a rule it is present, often to a very high degree.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The first process of the dream-work is condensation .
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Furthermore, there are jokes whose technique may be traced to such a condensation.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The sentence then sounds like a contradiction, an abbreviation, a condensation of several sentences.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - An "Everyman's Library" volume, Ramayana and Mahabharata , is a condensation in English verse by Romesh Dutt (New York: E. P. Dutton).
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - At her request, I have revised her manuscript; but such changes as I have made have been mainly for purposes of condensation and orderly arrangement.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs - This section, which suffers materially by condensation in the abbreviated text that follows, occupies nearly a page in the unabridged edition.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - Component heat of vapors, absorbed into the latent state during vaporization, restored to the free state during condensation.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Condensation of vapors.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Waves of condensation of dilatation.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Great and long-continued labor necessary for the condensation of the atmosphere.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - This is no doubt due to the warmth of the ascending currents, and to the heat evolved during the condensation of their vapours.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - 28 Since heat and cold tend to cause diffusion and condensation respectively.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - By condensation of vibratory forces, first subtle, then gross, He produced man's astral body and finally his physical form.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - In it condensation and curtailment are carried a good deal further than in Type II.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - But it is from this condensation, from this 47 gravity, that the work derives its peculiar impressiveness.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon - “The thunderbolt may be produced either by a violent condensation of the winds, or by their rapid motion and conflagration.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius - To live in the present is compatible with condensation of far-reaching meanings in the present.
— from How We Think by John Dewey
