Cases Quote by Carl Jung

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can…

— Anonymous

“Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in order to…

— Marcel Proust

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of…

— Sigmund Freud

If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.

— Chuck Spezzano

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

— Anonymous

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

— Anonymous

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate…

— Abraham Maslow

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an…

— Carl Jung

“I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people’s.”

— P.D. James

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor,…

— Marcel Proust

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients…

— James Rothman