“ 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- Copy
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“ A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
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“ Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. ”
- richard brautigan- Copy
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“ There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
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“ Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Work and love — these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. ”
- Theodor Reik- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. ”
- Theodor Reik- Copy
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“ Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Sin, guilt, neurosis — they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ The "sensitiveness" claimed by neurotics is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ”
- Sylvia Plath- Copy
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“ Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true… ”
- Abraham Myerson- Copy
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“ The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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