Neurosis Quotes
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
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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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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
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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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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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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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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.”
