Literary notes about compulsion (AI summary)
The term "compulsion" in literature is employed to denote a range of forces—from internal psychological drives to external necessities imposed by circumstance. In some texts, it reflects a powerful, almost inescapable inner drive that governs behavior, as seen in the clinical discussions of neuroses [1], [2], [3], and [4]. In other instances, it conveys an external imposition, whether it be the coercive measures of authority or the constraints of destiny, such as those illustrated in historical narratives and political commentary [5], [6], [7]. The word is also used to contrast voluntary actions with those driven by force or an irresistible urge, juxtaposing free will with the inevitability of fate or divine intervention [8], [9], [10]. Overall, authors have harnessed the multifaceted nature of "compulsion" to explore themes of power, constraint, and the interplay between choice and destiny.
- The compulsion idea must therefore be reinterpreted.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Psychiatry gives names to the various forms of compulsion, but says nothing further concerning them.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - In a large number of forms of nervous illness, in hysteria, conditions of anxiety and compulsion neuroses, one hypothesis is correct.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Such a disturbance is enough to bring on a compulsion neurosis.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - And the case must be very flagrant in which its fallacy could be detected with sufficient certainty to justify the harsh expedient of compulsion.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - The yong man by compulsion of his mother, toke occasion to inuent a pleasaunt and mery lie, in this wise.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - It was not, however, until February 1797 that the Pope fulfilled his obligations under this Treaty, and then under new compulsion.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - Draw him... Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free will under any necessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. PRINCE.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
