> The difference between the neurotic and the psychotic is that the
> neurotic frown quite a lot, while the psychotic smile all the time.
>
psychotic: adjective; term indicating gross impairment in recognizing
reality. The term may be used to describe a person's behavior at a given
time or a mental disorder in which the person has lost touch with reality.
The most prominent psychotic symptoms are delusions and hallucinations.
PSYCHOSIS: A mental condition whereby the patient completely loses touch
with reality. Freud originally distinguished between neurosis and psychosis
in the following way: "in neurosis the ego suppresses part of the id out of
allegiance to reality, whereas in psychosis it lets itself be carried away
by the id and detached from a part of reality" (5.202).
Reality (Re*al"i*ty) (?), n.; pl. Realities (#).
[Cf. F. réalité, LL. realitas. See 3d Real. and cf. 2d Realty.]
1. The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of
anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. "A man fancies that he
understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning."
Addison.
2. That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination,
fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely
an idea. "And to realities yield all her shows." Milton. "My neck may be an
idea to you, but it is reality to me." Beattie.
NEUROSIS (neuroses, neurotic) : The formation of behavioral or psychosomatic
symptoms as a result of the return of the repressed. A neurosis represents
an instance where the ego's efforts to deal with its desires through
repression, displacement, etc. fail: "A person only falls ill of a neurosis
if his ego has lost the capacity to allocate his libido in some way"
(Introductory Lectures 16.387). The failure of the ego and the increased
insistence of the libido lead to symptoms that are as bad or worse than the
conflict they are designed to replace. This term should be carefully
distinguished from psychosis.
smile (n): a change of facial expression involving a brightening of the eyes
and an upward curving of the corners of the mouth that may express
amusement, pleasure, affection, irony, or derision ...
VERB: Inflected forms: frowned, frown·ing, frowns
INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To wrinkle the brow, as in thought or displeasure. 2.
To regard something with disapproval or distaste: frowned on the use of so
much salt in the food.
TRANSITIVE VERB: To express (disapproval, for example) by wrinkling the
brow.
NOUN: A wrinkling of the brow in thought or displeasure; a scowl.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English frounen, from Old French froigner, to turn up
one's nose, from frogne, grimace, of Celtic origin.
assume
\As*sume"\, v. i. 1. To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is
due. --Bp. Burnet.
2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose
or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
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