Quotes with neurosis

  • My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
  • Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

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  • Sigmund Freud A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
    ― Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Sigmund Freud Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
    ― Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Szasz Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
    ― Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Lionel Trilling Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
    ― Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Boris Sidis It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.
    Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    ― Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.
    ― Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Anish Kapoor My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
    ― Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey National isolation breeds national neurosis.
    ― Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Marcel Proust Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
    ― Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry Miller Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    ― Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Lewis Mumford We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
    ― Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Sigmund Freud 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 him from actuality.
    ― Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Theodor Reik Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
    ― Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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