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"For the living organism, the process protecting it against stimuli is almost more important than the process whereby it receiving stimuli."

"The tiny piece of living matter" will be destroyed if certain protection against stimuli not formed when floating in the world charged with powerful energy. The outermost surface thus abandoned the organic structure of living things and became inorganic, like a special cover, allowing only fraction of external energies to pass through. It becomes necrotic, to prevent the deeper matter from suffering the same fate.

A cortex would now so tempered that completely adapted to the reception and becomes incapable of further modification. Cs sys, analogically, any elements cannot undergo any changes as a result of the excitation, since they have already modified to the fullest possible extent in terms of this particular process.

"Consciousness is not the only distinctive character that we are disposed to ascribe to the processes in the pcpt-cs system. All the other excitation leaving lasting traces in other systems within them form the basis of memory - the residual memory, which has nothing to do with consciousness."

"This compulsion of repetition appears to us to be more primal, more elemental, more deeply instinctual than the pleasure principle."

"We are much more strongly affected by cases where people appear to be the passive victim of something which they are powerless to influence, and yet which they suffer again and again in an endless repetition of the same fate."

The compulsion that repeat something generate nothing pleasure at all, not even the scrutiny of ego, exist both in neurosis and normal healthy people.