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Neurosis Definition

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton R. Sapirstein

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel Trilling

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
Anish Kapoor

National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
Vincent D'Onofrio

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik

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