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conflict-free sphere

in ego psychology, an area of the ego that develops and functions without giving rise to internal conflict. Functions ordinarily controlled by the conflict-free sphere include speech, motility, planning, and other autonomous ego functions. Psychoanalysis is thought to increase the confict-free sphere of the ego and therefore to free up an individual’s capacities in life, the result of reducing neurotic symptoms and releasing the energy bound up in them. Also called conflict-free area.

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visual field defect

visual field defect

a reduction in the normal extent of the visual field, characterized by partial or total blindness. This is caused by an interruption in the flow of visual impulses between the retina and the visual cortex, which may be caused by a lesion before, after, or in the optic chiasm or in all or a part of the optic radiations; it can involve tracts of one or both eyes. Each possible lesion produces a different defect.