![]() ![]() Fight-flight impulses tempt us to regress to more dominant-submissive and predator-prey interaction. They are most noticeable during transitional points of growth that test one’s control of fight-flight impulses and the ability to form alliances. Through formal and informal rites of passage, where status and stigma play a crucial role, regressive tendencies are monitored for ruptures in ego boundaries. These fetal residues combine with the later effects of trauma and one’s biological predisposition to illness.īut first some groundwork is laid to make the case that cultures consider the problem of regression a serious one. Poorly negotiated fetal memory will show itself in mental health symptoms pulling for regression. Furthermore, the writer asserts that unbeknownst to us, one’s relationship to an undifferentiated object is managed in everyday life, negotiated unconsciously as we strive for mental equilibrium in the outside world. Regressions in severe mental disorders, and to a lesser extent mild to moderate mental disorders, should include fetal memory pulling for withdrawal and regression back to an undifferentiated state. The contents of this object will reflect primitive fetal memories striving to meet homeostatic needs. ![]() Proposed is that fetal memory exists and interacts with everyday consciousness through an undifferentiated primary object. Does it exist? Does it account for the uncanny nature of mental disturbances? And if so, how does it interact with post-birth consciousness? We stop short of following regression to its ultimate place of origin: fetal memory. Historically, we’ve not paid enough attention to the implications. Adults may suddenly and unconsciously behave like children. Of particular concern to Anna Freud was the defense of regression. Send us feedback about these examples.Thanks to the contributions of ego psychology, we know that defenses play a role in the maintenance of mental disorders but also as a mode of adaptation. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'annihilate.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 Two decades ago, physicists first proposed that certain dark matter particles-known as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, or WIMPs-could annihilate with anti-dark matter to produce matter and antimatter in equal amounts. 2023 Feign weakness then annihilate everyone with the hidden missile inside your fake cast. Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. ![]() Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, Move over The Last of Us, there’s a new biological threat sprouting to annihilate mankind. 2020 Others scrutinize the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow for light that would be produced when WIMP pairs annihilate. 2022 His comments were interpreted as support for the eventual establishment of full ties between the kingdom and Israel, which would annihilate what's left of the Arab consensus that recognition of Israel can only come after the establishment of a Palestinian state. Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023 Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller devices that can be fitted on shorter-range missiles, or even fired from the back of a pickup truck, deployed to annihilate an advancing military unit, for example, or destroy a few city blocks (rather than entire cities, targets for strategic nuclear weapons). Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023 See all Abstractions blog For one thing, our mere existence is proof that the Standard Model is incomplete, since according to the theory, the Big Bang should have produced equal parts matter and antimatter that would have annihilated each other. Recent Examples on the Web Then came Tuesday night, when the Heat power rotation was annihilated by the Hawks’ larger front line. ![]()
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