Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud 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
It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of… — Rajneesh 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
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory;… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage.… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image