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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.
- Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce…
- It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define…
- A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis…
- We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a…
- A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
- Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
- Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend…
- We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating…
- Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to…
- Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
- If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel…
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- The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud
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- In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough… — Sigmund Freud
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- Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key… — Sigmund Freud