Word of the day: frustration

History

This problem was first raised in the writings of Z. Freud. The Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychoanalyst V. M. Leibin writes in the Dictionary-Handbook of Psychoanalysis:

The concept of "frustration" is widely used in modern psychological and psychoanalytic literature, but the idea of frustration as a mental state that can lead to the emergence of neurosis, was reflected in classical psychoanalysis. So, when considering the etiology of neurotic diseases, Freud used the concept of Versagung, meaning refusal, prohibition and most often translated into English as frustration.

For Freud, these "refusal" and "prohibition" referred primarily to the impossibility of satisfying the needs of love.

In the Universal German-Russian Dictionary, the word Versagung also has the meaning of “frustration” if it is used in the context of psychoanalysis.

Later, the theory of frustration and the frustration test of the American psychologist S. Rosenzweig, the theory of frustration aggression by D. Dollar and N. Miller, the theory of frustration regression by R. Barker, T. Dembo and K. Levin, and N. Mayer's fixation theory appeared.

The term "frustration" is mainly found in psychology. Sometimes he is mistakenly credited with the meaning of the word "prostration", which means an oppressed, depressed, exhausted state, complete indifference to the environment, a breakdown.

Usage examples

"Researchers of frustration study those difficulties that are truly insurmountable obstacles or barriers, barriers that stand in the way of achieving a goal, solving a problem, meeting a need." ND Levitov, "Frustration as one of the types of mental states."
“Moralists very often have problems with spontaneity and suffer from frustration, you probably know. By the sad face of a person, one can immediately diagnose that he is a moralist (in a white coat). " Marina Komissarova, “Love. Defrosting Secrets”.
"There is frustration, envy, and an inferiority complex here." Agatha Christie, Hickory-Dikory.