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During all the years of trying to learn how to do psycho-analysis I had kept a loose-leaf note-book of definitions and descriptions. It was a collection of possibly useful concepts made in order to test their adequacy as tools for thinking about what my patients said and did. Here are a few extracts from it. I have not included all the technical terms used in the footnotes of this book, but have tried to select those that have a bearing on the main text of the book, whether explicitly or implicitly. Since some psycho-analytic terms are finding their way both into psychiatric and ordinary English dictionaries, I have sometimes added definitions from these,1 as well as some for ordinary English words, where I felt the need for it; and also some definitions of my own. Always at the back of my mind was Follett's statement: ‘… thus concepts are not formulated, but formulating experience. Concept-making is a long slow process. It is all life working ceaselessly on itself, building itself up.’
Ambivalence: coexistence of a primary impulse and its opposite form (Rickman, 1937); coexisting of two opposing drives, desires, feelings or emotions towards the same person, object, or goal ; coexistence of two opposite emotions, especially love and hate, towards the same object (Drever, 1952).
Anxiety, neurotic: anxiety about an unknown danger, … a danger that has still to be discovered … objective anxiety is anxiety about a known danger .
Artist and Scientist: men who acquire a special experience of life—affective with the artist, perceptual with the scientist—which negates the common ego or the common social world, and therefore requires refashioning of these worlds to include the new experience (Christopher Caudwell, 1937).
Auto-Erotism: self-produced sexual excitement (Drever).