Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people’s.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron 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
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
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
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry 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
“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
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
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