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fears are not your real fears. They are displaced fears. They are the fears you want to 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
A need is something real, unless it is displaced or superimposed by an unreal one. A drive 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
very parent -- however symbolically and in a displaced way -- even now. Maintaining your glorified image 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
clearly manifested. Now it may manifest in a displaced form. If you are truly desirous to know 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
disappointment causes an infinitely deeper suffering in the displaced area than the suffering connected with the original 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
spirituality and seclusion may be the manifestation of displaced needs in any of the aforementioned respects: fear 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
further into your personal displacements. How have you displaced your needs -- by substituting the opposite or 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
to imply that the pleasure principle can be displaced into another outlet in its original form -- 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
lessen the intensity and strain, even if the displaced need has to find another outlet until it 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
you may be sure that something has been displaced. Seeing this over and over again, to a 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
not recognized in its full significance and detail. Displaced needs are transferred just as one might displace 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
truth within yourself. The identical mechanism works with displaced feelings and needs. Are there any questions now 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
your needs or their intensity because you have displaced them, this blindness to them must make you 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
way, since all the original desires have been displaced; (4) the extent of the ability or disability 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
certain place. Through their actions, some individuals were displaced from one spot to another -- or sent 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
fear onto any number of other fears. The displaced fears may be denied and covered up as 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
realization that all my anger and sarcasm are displaced positive feelings, especially overwhelming feelings of love. I 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
recognized, but as an entity grows, such unconscious, displaced emotions become keenly conscious, although, at first, one 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
sadness and pain -- is denied, it becomes displaced. It will be reexperienced in subsequent situations. Displaced 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
displaced. It will be reexperienced in subsequent situations. Displaced and denied sadness becomes self-pity, hopelessness, depression. These 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
Thus the way out becomes possible. Anxiety is displaced fear and, as such, offers no way out 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
but legitimate longings I mentioned before, or in displaced longings -- longings for false, unreal fulfillments. The 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
The fear is often submerged, covered up or displaced onto substitute levels and manifestations. Once the deep 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
 
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make them disappear; instead, by a process of displacement, they reappear in a destructive form. You then 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
onto superimposed needs that are not genuine. This displacement creates confusion and knots. It paralyzes your spontaneity 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
your maturity. When a need is unconscious, a displacement occurs and a substitute need is pursued lustfully 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
of self-deception and therefore of self-alienation. It is displacement. Thus, the lie causes negative effects, while owning 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
may weaken you if it is dishonest, if displacement and subterfuge are at work. If your anger 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
a healthy anger. Unhealthy anger is always a displacement of an original emotion. Healthy anger is a 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
it is certainly related to gluttony, although the displacement of the real need is not quite so 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
relationship on a mature basis. With gluttony, the displacement is so far removed that it is more 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
you. Be in peace. Be in God! 121. DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
fully understand in its deeper significance: that is, displacement, substitution, and superimposition of feelings and needs. This 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
limited understanding and lack of self-awareness. For example, displacement and superimposition result in a conflict between the 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
original energy converts into a different type -- displacement, or it changes into its opposite, due to 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
to receive is wrong, thereby increasing the denial, displacement and substitution. To recapitulate: unfree, compulsive, problematic giving 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
the one that is denied, another form of displacement is shifting a need into another channel. Wherever 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
the need. Therefore you battle against recognizing the displacement -- or if you do recognize it, you 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
to accept yourself in a spirit of realism. Displacement and substitution occur not only with one's fundamental 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
connected with this way of reacting. Nevertheless, the displacement may not be permanent. It is of equal 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
or side-activity. As in the former example, the displacement itself cannot harm, provided you are fully aware 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
become possible to find and clearly determine the displacement. It is particularly important to ascertain to what 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
is supposed to be eliminated. In reality, the displacement and substitution results in much more severe and 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
result of denying the original need or feeling. Displacement, as discussed here, is horizontal, as it were 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
it were. One layer covers the other. Vertical displacement substitutes one form of self-expression with another. Compulsiveness 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
Of course, transference is also a form of displacement or substitution. But the phenomenon of transferred emotions 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
they really belong rather than experiencing them in displacement, is always a relief. But the work begins 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
We might truly say that it is a displacement. It is a manifestation of a deeper wish 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
resolve a problem when one deals with the displacement of it. It must be dealt with, felt 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
understand that very well, I know that the displacement contains exactly the same thing. I feel the 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
and the temptation of the outer direction of displacement, projection, and emphasis -- even on a truth 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
mechanism in the psyche that directly connects this displacement with the prohibition of pleasure. The more childishly 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
life at large, perhaps. Then see this particular displacement, where you shift. Because no matter how wrong 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
with the processes under discussion. These are (1) displacement, (2) projection, (3) denial. I will give simple 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
You then may lose the now point through displacement. Let us take the example when you love 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
in your life. This is what I call displacement. Quite apart from guilt about the dishonesty of 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
your untruthfulness, of your deceitfulness, of your negativity. Displacement creates chaos and disorder. It creates a total 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
Here and there you see some of your displacement, but not nearly to the degree it still 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
you see you have the problem of automatic displacement, the problem is already diminished. Let us now 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
influenced by the past, striving toward the future, displacement, projection, and denial -- are attempts to get 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
ignorance, confusion, false images, emotional tightnesses and the displacement of individuality into any kind of societal traditionalism 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
and exploitative ends. Even worse, this pollution and displacement was looked upon as if it were morally 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
about which there is as much misunderstanding and displacement as about false surrender and false assertion. How 254 SURRENDER
it. But you must be aware of the displacement and put more awareness and clear intention into 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
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forms of expression, so that no superimpositions and displacements occur. What appears as contradiction to the conflicted 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
and idealized self-image. Look further into your personal displacements. How have you displaced your needs -- by 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
and to what extent? Then look at your displacements from the opposite approach. Examine your present negative 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
of equal importance to be aware of situational displacements, otherwise permanent denial of a need and substitution 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
and substitution may come into existence. Such temporary displacements may occur, particularly in the course of your 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
shifts. The intensity of preoccupation resulting from such displacements applies to both forms. If you are afraid 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
 
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aware of it in its original form, without displacing the genuine feelings, substituting others, or superimposing other 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
in a need for special consideration. Am I displacing, or superimposing, this original need? ANSWER: Yes, you 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
and you may relinquish your demands. No longer displacing your needs will generally mature you sufficiently to 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
language. Language can lend itself well to concealing, displacing and deceiving when you use the right words 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
highly energized state is a direct result of displacing the natural sexual force. It has no way 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
causes in the self, where they really are. Displacing them outward brings a total distortion of reality 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
accepting a mean, godless world, nor by simply displacing the fear and longing into more superficial, even 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING

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