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Creativity today is characterised by increasing intellectualisation.

Intellectualisation:

The over intellectualisation of art which has come about through art colleges wanting to justify art their existence as seats of learning.

Expression, Stiegler argues, must always already be the possibility of generalisation, that is, of anticipation qua intellectualisation.

Guilt can also be remedied through intellectualisation or cognition (the understanding that the source of the guilty feelings was illogical or irrelevant).

This logic relates to visual and aural aspects as well as overt intellectualisation, through literary references and driving philosophies.

Denial, displacement, intellectualisation, fantasy, compensation, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, and sublimation were the defense mechanisms Freud identified.

Freud considered this psychical operation to be fairly salutary compared to the others that he identified, such as repression, displacement, denial, reaction formation, intellectualisation and projection.

Didier Anzieu saw Freud's theorisation of psychoanalysis as a counterphobic defence against anxiety through intellectualisation: permanently ruminating on the instinctive, emotional world that was the actual object of fear.

Intellectualisation: The family members usually have clearer heads than the primary sufferers and use them for even more determined discussion of "facts" rather than facing up to and discussing the emotional pain of their own position.

From a Kleinian viewpoint, Anzieu considered Freud's 'elaboration of psychoanalytic theory...corresponded to a setting up of obsessional defences against depressive anxiety' - emphasising Freud's need to 'defend himself against it through such a degree of intellectualisation'.

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place.

The moment's intellectualization was swallowed up again in the Rage.

They're intellectuals, he thought, and their characteristic defense is intellectualization.

Such intellectualization, however, offered little comfort and did not allay my fears.

Jargon is often used as a device of intellectualization.

Intellectualization protects against anxiety by repressing the emotions connected with an event.

His livelihood rests on the intellectualization of the passionate expression of rock.

Intellectualization is one of Freud's original defense mechanisms.

A comparison sometimes made is that between isolation (also known as 'isolation of affect') and intellectualization.

Intellectualization is a 'flight into reason', where the person avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing on facts and logic.

Your motives are not morally driven, nor aimed at the intellectualization of your viewers.

She considered that only 'if the process of intellectualization overruns the whole field of mental life' might it be 'already pathological'.

His problem list and the lists within the list were a way of gaining an illusion of control over difficult feelings': intellectualization.

Two new defence mechanisms (intellectualization and asceticism) emerge in adolescence to defend the individual from the instinctual demands of the body.

"We Horven specialize in orderly intellectualization.

"Pre-natal intellectualization is not possible."

Intellectualization may accompany, but 'differs from rationalization, which is justification of irrational behavior through cliches, stories, and pat explanation'.

But for all his political intellectualization, Mr. Kushner throughout is looking, childlike, for the way to collective good.

Sociopolitical tensions, ethnic conflicts, economic deterioration, and most importantly, the professionalism and intellectualization of crime, armed with the latest technologies.

When his reply came, Feric sensed that it sprang not from inborn instinct but from a sharp, if somewhat cold and mechanical, intellectualization.

In particular, the politicization of intellectuals-and the converse, the intellectualization of politics-has been a key feature of French life at least since the eighteenth century.

This is an important factor because the ego-defense mechanisms (e.g. repression and intellectualization) are key in staving off anxiety dreams and nightmares.

Ross's seminal work, Sail Power, was the intellectual capstone of the previous decade's intellectualization of sail.

It is this mixture of intellectualization and tonal polish that broadly characterizes the work of this younger generation of pianists.

The fusion of culture and entertainment that is taking place today leads not only to a depravation of culture, but inevitably to an intellectualization of amusement.