Literary notes about Fixation (AI summary)
In literary texts the term fixation assumes a range of meanings that span the psychological, perceptual, and even the technical. In psychoanalytic discourse it often refers to an arrested state in early development or an obsessive concentration of the libido, as seen in [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], and [8]. In discussions of cognition and perception fixation denotes the steady focus of vision or attention, highlighted in [9] and [10]. The word is also appropriated in scientific and historical narratives to indicate processes such as chemical binding or the stabilization of social structures, as noted in [11], [12], and [13]. This multiplicity of usage reinforces the versatile role of "fixation" as both a literal and figurative device across literary works.
- Before we pass on, however, let us agree to call this arrest of a partial impulse in an early stage of development, a fixation of the instinct.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The libido wanders from phantasies now unconscious to their sources in unconsciousness, and back to its own points of fixation.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Through this fixation of the libido the man did not become neurotic but perverse, a foot fetishist, as we say.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - He holds that such cases show a "fixation" in an earlier stage of psychosexual development.
— from The Behavior of Crowds: A Psychological Study by Everett Dean Martin - This new stage is called narcism , in view of the pathological fixation of this condition which may be observed later on.
— from Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud - For your comprehension of the neuroses it is necessary to keep in mind this connection between fixation and regression.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The traumatic neuroses show clear indications that they are grounded in a fixation upon the moment of the traumatic disaster.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - It may countenance the fixation and accordingly become perverse or, what amounts to the same thing, become infantile.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The wandering of the attention entails that of the fixation point.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - The keenest differentiation of impressions is limited to the so-called region of clearest vision, which surrounds the fixation-point.
— from An Introduction to PsychologyTranslated from the Second German Edition by Wilhelm Max Wundt - It is interesting to observe that a similar fixation of the social status of citizens occurred in the Roman Empire from c. A.D. 300 on.
— from A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] by Wolfram Eberhard - We do not know to what extent these organisms are distributed in the soil, nor how widely this nitrogen fixation through bacterial life is going on.
— from The Story of Germ Life by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn - They assist in the fixation of free nitrogen, and they build up assimilable compounds.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir
