Neurosis Quotes

153 quotes by 114 authors

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. — Clive Barker
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people,… — Chaz Bono
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham
Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a… — Ken Dryden
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the… — Sigmund Freud
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you… — Harold Ramis
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the… — Mary McCarthy
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that… — Sigmund Freud
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His… — Carl Jung
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be… — Sigmund Freud
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. — Arthur Miller
I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up — Patty Duke
It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music,… — James Dean
It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things… — David Lynch
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my… — Yayoi Kusama
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance. — Marie-Louise von Franz
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters,… — Edward Abbey
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud

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