Neurosis Quotes
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
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We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.
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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.
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I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
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The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.”
