We see here the regression to the infantile, to a primitive child libido.
Yet one thing I believe I have proved, that also in Lady Macbeth's sleep walking the erotic is not wanting nor the regression into the infantile.
It is possible to think of this regression as a return to the mental habit of the suckling period, when spontaneous effort is at its minimum.
The natural flow of interest in regression is to earlier types of ambition and activity.
The stupor regression going beneath the level of such attachments leaves family relationships relatively undisturbed.
Turning now to the symptoms of the stupor proper, we note, first, the effects of the loss of energy which regression implies.
The next stage in regression is that where the idea of death appears.
In this disease there is a regression of interest to primitive fantastic thoughts, and with this a perversion of energy and emotion.
In the first place, we always find that stupor occurs in an individual who is unhappy and who has found no other solution than regression for the predicament in which he is.
Quite frequently the choice of the stupor regression is determined by some definitely environmental event which suggests death.
According to the view of modern psychopathology, the essence of insanity is regression with indolent thinking as opposed to progressive and energetic mentation.
If we accept the principle of regression we find historically an analogue to what is apparently the mental state of deep stupor in the earliest phases of infancy.
This state is either one of organic coma, in which case it marks the appearance of a physical factor not evidenced in the milder stages, or else it is the acme of this regression by withdrawal of interest.
The next step in regression is marked by the spoiled-child conduct, interest being so self-centered as to lead to autoerotic habits and the perverse reactions which we call negativism.
The typical ideational content and many of the symptoms of stupor are to be explained as expressions of death, for a regression to a Nirvana-like state can be most easily formulated in such a delusion.
Indifference and stolidity may exist with those milder degrees of regression which do not conflict with one’s critical sense, and hence may be present without any false ideas.
So far as Regression may be treated as being constant in value, the Filial and the Fraternal relations become reciprocally connected.
Clinical experience confirms the view that in the long run the man or the woman of the intermediate type is bound to pay the price of regression in one way or another" (p.
Early seasonal increase in seminiferous epithelial heights and in diameter of lumina and tubules reached a maximum in April followed by regression reaching complete involution by August.
By the time the regular breeding season arrived, this male had long since undergone sexual regression and retained no trace of the red suffusion.
The phenomenon of regression may be made somewhat clearer by the aid of a simple diagram--Fig.
Regression is found in all characteristics observed in this way, psychic as well as purely physical.
Had it been the case that there was no regression in stature the different classes of fathers would have had sons averaging just the same as themselves and the line representing the heights of the sons would have coincided with the line AB.
As a matter of fact, however, neither of these possibilities is actually realized and the regression line EF is approximated in an actual series of data.
Disuse alone, as I and many others have always argued, cannot do the first, but can only cause regression to the mean, with perhaps some further regression from economy of material.
But in Freud's conception it appears as if the incestuous desires of the Œdipus-complex were the real cause of the regression to infantile phantasies.
Similar effects of regression are to be found in cases where there are no troubles in the function of nutrition, and here we readily find a regressive revival of reminiscences of a time long past.
I do not even seek the reason for regression in primary incestuous or any other sexual desires.
Every psychoanalysis carried out at all thoroughly shows this regression more or less plainly.
When the generating line of a cylinder or a cone becomes a tangent to the directrix, the cylinder or cone in general has an edge of regression along this generating line.
The circumscribed cones have edges of regression along the generatrices, which correspond to the points of transition.
The osculating plane of a curve at a given point may be constructed by considering it as the edge of regression of a developable surface; this construction presents some uncertainty in practice.
If when this additament is given, the seed be productive only on condition of subsidiaries as before, there will be established an infinite regression of additaments to (or supplementations of) the seed, to be afforded by the subsidiaries.
We may thus lay down in a general sort of way a conception which I like to call the theory of psychophysical progression, fixation and regression along evolutionary and developmental lines.
Inasmuch as the temptation to go back to his early love is a sign of a tendency towards regression and erotism generally the patient shows what Clark has spoken of as a desire to return to the mother-body.
In tics, it must be noted, there isregression to more inefficient and inferior methods of response and adaptation, the types of activity being of a somatic and psychic nature.
Therefore, the most we can say of the mental condition in ticquers is that there is an exaggeration of the mental infantilism or a fixation at or tendency toward regression to this type of thinking or of reaction.
There is thus a fixation, or rather a regression or reversion, oft repeated, to a type of reaction of a very infantile, primitive sort, farther down in the scale of evolution and development.
Thus hath he also made men believe that he can raise the dead, that he hath the key of life and death, and a prerogative above that principle which makes no regressionfrom privations.
For to desire there were no God, were plainly to unwish their own being; which must needs be annihilated in the substraction of that essence which substantially supporteth them, and restrains them from regression into nothing.
The progression is what the breeder wants, the regression what he detests.
Regression is the permanency of part of the mediocrity which the selection was invoked to overcome.
It is easy to return from so highly selected figures as for instance 95% to the average about of 50%, as regression to mediocrity is always an easy matter.
It brings [95] the race above its average, and must guard constantly against the regression towards this average which usually takes place.
But whenever we make a mistake, and perchance sow from an ear, the deviation of which was largely due to partial variation, the regression should be expected to become considerably larger.
Vegetative propagation has the great advantage of exempting the varieties from regression to mediocrity, which always follows multiplication by seeds.
The progression and regressionwere found to be proportionate to the amount of the deviation.
We will treat of this reopening of previous possibilities under the head of regression in the next lecture.
I have repeated this experiment of Fritz Miller's and obtained nearly the same regression of three-fifths, though working with another variety, and under widely different climatic conditions.
Very advantageous material for the study of progression and regression in the realm of fluctuating variability is afforded by the [775] ears of corn or maize.
A progression in relation to the whole race, and a regression in comparison with the parent.
The science of the regression or self-reflection of the idea, is the "Philosophy of Mind.
Regression of the male into the male organ: the cirripedes.
Regression of the male into the male organ: the rirripedes.
Far from being a regression or a stop, it is perhaps a progress, the male at least gaining in security and vigour, being obliged to very little muscular development.
The regression line for Procyon lotor in winter (Table 5) extrapolates to zero metabolism at 35.
H]{b} and the regression line representing oxygen consumption below T{n}.
Regression equations calculated to describe oxygen consumption at T{a}'s below T{lc} are presented in Table 5.
Solid sloping line represents regression of oxygen consumption on chamber air temperature for males and females, and the horizontal line, basal metabolism for males and females.
Linear regression of this relationship indicated that 89% of the variance in climatic distribution was attributed to the composite scores.
Regression lines for three groups of animals in summer extrapolate to zero metabolism at values equivalent to, or greater than, normal T{b}; 38.
To quantify the magnitude of this difference, we compared the measured value for Procyon lotor with one calculated for it from a mass-specific least-squares regression equation (Eq.
These regression equations, therefore, also were derived using values of oxygen consumption expressed in terms of metabolic body mass (Mellen, 1963).
The intercept and coefficients of this equation (Table 4) did not differ from those for summer females, but they did differ from those in the regression for trapped males in the X squared (p<0.
But the analysis and--still more distinctly--the synthesis of dreams which lack regression toward pictures, e.
The withdrawal from the outer world retains its significance also for our conception; though not the only factor, it nevertheless helps the regression to make possible the representation of the dream.
On its way to regressionthe dream takes on the form of dramatization.
Law of Regression It is only by watching the effect of the peculiarity on the offspring of its possessor that we are able to determine the nature of the variation.
Fritz Mueller and Galton conducted independently enquiries into the amount of the regression shown by the progeny of parents which have deviated from the average by fluctuating variation.
The latter are not only to be attributed to the fixation of the infantile tendencies, but also to regression to these tendencies owing to the misplacement of other paths of the sexual stream.
The regressionof the prostate, its retirement from the field of sex competition, is the central episode of the male climacteric.
The earlier puberty and menstruation of the warmer climates may be explained as due to an earlier regression of the pineal under the pressure of a great amount of light playing upon the skin.
This is a legitimate use of regression although it is not used so much these days to uncover past traumatic incidents.
In fact, one theory of hypnosis equates the hypnotic state as a form of unconscious regression and need for submission.
The theory that regression can spotlight personality disorders found in more infantile states is also widely held.
Kline thinks that retrogression and regressionalter perceptions and feelings, and, in the case of the latter, causes us to go backward in time to the point where re-education may be employed.
The archetypal world was made by the egression of one out of one, and by the regression of that one, so emitted into itself by emanation.
The regression to infantile phobia is the bridge where the transformation of libido into fear is conveniently effected.
We could say far more about regression of libido if we took into consideration another group of neuroses: neurotic narcism.
First: the regression of dream-work is not only formal, it is also of greater import.
Suppression is a localized and dynamic conception, regression purely descriptive.
Regression of the libido without suppression would never result in neurosis but would finally end in perversion.
In contrast to this, regression of libido in compulsion-neurosis turns back most conspicuously to the earlier sadistico-anal organization, which accordingly becomes the most significant factor expressed by the symptoms.
In hysteria, libidinous return to primary, incestuous sexual objects is quite regular, but regression to a former stage of sexual organization very rare.
Of the two libido regressions, the regression to a former stage of sexual organization is by far the more conspicuous.
We can obviously assume that fixation and regression are not independent of each other.
Through these comparisons we observe that up to this point we have not used the wordregression in its general, but in a very special sense.
What up this point we have called regression and considered in its relation to fixation, was only the return of libido to former stages of its development.
Secondly, we must admit that the universal regressionof the libido to the period of childhood would be inexplicable if there were nothing there which could exert an attraction for it.
They serve as substitutes for the gratification which has been forborne, by a regression of the libido to earlier days, with a return to former development phases in their choice of object and in their organization.
This lack of correlation in the Silkie hybrids is perhaps due to the heavy regression in toe-number characteristic of the second hybrid generation.
This result is not to be explained as due to a regression towards the 4-4-toed condition, but rather as due to the intermediate condition of the heterozygote.
However, only a small proportion of the extracted Silkie dominants have as many toes as the original Silkie ancestors, and this indicates a permanent regression (through the contaminating influence of hybridization?
Shortsightedness among civilised nations, for example, is due partly to the absence of selection and consequent regression towards a mean, and partly to its individual production by constant reading.
He calls this the law of "Regression towards Mediocrity," and it has been proved by experiments with vegetables and by observations on mankind.
For the explanation of these we have no resource but variation and selection, to the effects of which, acting alternately with regression or degradation as above explained (p.
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