Quotes about Neurosis

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The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions w — Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together — they are two expressions of one process.
The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursu — Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by life, really died of it — Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Anyone who is truly crazy, in my book, wouldn't be able to understand the dialectic of crazy and not-crazy. Listen, I've — James Curcio, Join My Cult!
in this type of anxiety neurosis the anxious attitude is so intimately a part of the individual's method of evaluating s — Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety
Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and thereby lend it a sense — Neel Burton, The Meaning of Madness
The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a l — Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a g — Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociat — Les Murray, Fredy Neptune
The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” — Richard P. Kluft
The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I believe in attacking th — Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. — Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and conte — Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an in — Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic e — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion