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The Paths to the Formation of Symptoms (p.419)

As the Ego is slowly educated by the pressure of everyday necessity it is forced to give up the objects and aims which provide pleasure. Phantasy allows us to dwell on imaginary wish fulfillment.

Here in the imagination we can build a natural realm free from necessity where everything including all the noxious and useless can grow and proliferate.

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The Paths to the Formation of Symptoms (p.416)

Among neurotics there are three youthful experiences that occur repeatedly. These events are as likely to be phantasies as they are real – in both cases they will be equally important. Freud called these ‘Primal Phantasies’.

The thee phantasies are listed below followed by the cause.

• The observation of parental intercourse:
The unsatisfied socophilic (voyeuristic) instincts during puberty

• Seduction by an adult:
This phantasy is created as a screen against the shame of masturbation

• The threat of castration:
This is interpreted as a punishment for masturbation

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I know I’m a little late to the party on this one but I finally cracked Flash Classes last weekend - yay!

To be honest there wasn’t really a whole lot to crack, just the definitions of private and public functions.

Essentially a public function will execute when the class is initialised, and a private function will wait to be called, and that’s all there is to it .

Try this out:

In a text editor create a file and name it TestClass.as

Type the following:

class TestClass{

public function foo(){
trace(“Hello from Foo”);
}

private function baa(){
trace(“Hello from Baa”);
}

}

Now create a new Flash document and save it in the same folder as TestClass.as

On frame one (or any other) type:

var myTestClass = new TestClass();

now publish your movie and you should get the output “Hello from Foo”

If you now add the following line:

myTestClass.baa();

publish your movie and you should get the output “Hello from Foo”, “Hello from Baa”

Yes, it really is that easy.

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The Paths to the Formation of Symptoms (p.405)

The path to perversion begins in same way as the construction of neurotic symptoms.

Repulsed by reality the Libido seeks other paths to satisfaction → it is lured into regression by earlier fixations → here the Libido may find satisfaction in these earlier organizations or from an object earlier abandoned → if the Libido meets no objection from the Ego a perversion arises.

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Development and Regression (p.401)

The Libido and the Ego instincts behave in different ways towards real necessity.

• The Ego complies with necessity, and develops in accordance with the instruction of reality.

• The Libido begins development withdrawn from reality of necessity and often will remain inacessable to infulence.

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Last weekend I discovered that Channel 4 has a secret public garden behind their beautiful HQ on Horseferry Road. I know that Richard Rodgers designed the building but I’m not sure if he had a hand in the climbing frame.

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Ever since I first saw an internet kiosk on the street I always knew that whatever happened from this point on it would always be possible to operate a business and therefore make money, whoever you were.

Looks as if Google have had the same idea too, but they acted on it, and now stand to make zillions of dollars.

Your $10 investment capital will buy you:

• A complete, web-based IT infrastructure for its business
• A custom corporate portal/intranet for its employees
• Corporate e-mail service
• Corporate instant messaging
• Calendar software and services
• Web-site design software
• Web-site hosting

And, by incorporating some other free Google services, the company also gets:

• Word-processing software
• Spreadsheet software
• Web-site analytics

Canny would-be zillionaires might be advised to hang on before splashing any cash as I have a feeling that Microsoft might try punching back with an offer of their own, which of course will be free.

Watch this space.

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