Quotes About Ideational

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world.

To move into the mainstream, the ideational contender has to reframe the crisis by changing the very definition of reality.

Psychoneurotic anxiety and agitated depression coupled with an ideational personality produce a combination that is like being boiled alive.

The results are only infrequently a matter of murder, but world as well as individual events ride upon the waters of an ideational sea. The killing fields of Cambodia come from philosophical discussions in Paris.

English, like any other natural language, has two major communicative functions. The first is an ideational function: to get an idea across, as when I say, It's raining, or I love you. It also has an interactive-interpersonal function: to influence the attitudes and behaviours of others, and, in a myriad ways, change an aspect of the world's states of affairs in the process