A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't… — Ti West Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
“Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?” — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life.… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence],… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, at high speed, her eyes fixed on the road, Abigail asked, a little loudly above the hum,… — Lindsay Hill Copy Share Image
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis. — John Schneider Copy Share Image
“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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