A hysterical symptom is based upon phantasy instead of upon the repetition of real experience, and the sense of guilt in an obsessional neurosis is based upon the fact of an evil intention which was never carried out.
It is in accordance with this that a neurosis should make its victim asocial and should remove him from the usual group formations.
It may be said that a neurosishas the same disintegrating effect upon a group as being in love.
Booth, "Coitus Interruptus and Coitus Reservatus as Causes of Profound Neurosis and Psychosis," Alienist and Neurologist, Nov.
Löwenfeld agrees with Freud and Gattel that the neurosis of anxiety tends to occur in the abstinent, careful examination showing that the abstinence is a factor in its production in both sexes.
Kisch has described, as a cardiac neurosis of sexual origin, a pathological tachycardia which is an exaggeration of the physiological quick heart of sexual excitement.
It would therefore be equally meaningless to say that either is the cause of the other--just as it would be equally meaningless to say that neurosis is the cause of psychosis, or that psychosis is the cause of neurosis.
Consequently, as above shown, it would be equally incorrect to say that the neurosis governs the psychosis, as it would be to say that the psychosis governs the neurosis.
Materialists, as already observed, are fond of saying that the evidence of causation from neurosis to psychosis is as good as such evidence can be proved to be in any other case.
For, in the first place, according to the theory of Monism, the neurosis of the brain could not be what it is without the psychosis of the mind.
Hysteria and compulsion-neuroses are regarded as a reaction to the sexual experiences of childhood; neurasthenia and anxiety-neurosis are referred to later sexual experiences.
Freud's theory may also be mentioned, that the anxiety-neurosis is referable to certain sexual processes; but we must not forget that Freud makes a similar assumption in the case of other neuroses as well.
In both sexes there is a tendency to neurosis and degeneration.
He came to me to be treated for neurosis, but the neurosis was simply the result of homosexual lack of gratification.
We have seen in this case the presence of a profound neurosisand coexistent with it an apparently normal sexual life.
In the neurosis there are two erotic inclinations which stand in a fixed antithesis to each other, and one of these at least is unconscious.
The neurosis is an unsuccessful attempt of the individual to solve in his own bosom the sexual question which perplexes the whole of human society.
Freud has delimited what he calls obsessional or compulsion neurosis (Zwangsneurosis), which is classed under psychasthenia by the French and under neurasthenia by others.
A few of us are becoming singularly fed up with the computer neurosisthat seems to have this planet in its grip.
They suggest some sort of neurosis on the part of the feeders.
This matricide suffered from a grave neurosis at puberty, which left traces up to near the time of the homicide; her judgments of life were affected by a permanent and powerful morbid influence.
She had hysterical attacks, which became rare before the deed, and were interpreted as a sexual neurosis of puberty.
I thought to myself that if it was "only" a neurosis it was one with great possibilities.
So I consider myself fortunate in having been born well, except that I inherited a neurosis instead of an estate.
A neurosis is a nervous symptom of some sort, and if you have a sufficient number and variety of them you are a neurasthenic.
Now the barriers which you had built against this war neurosis have broken down.
Severe psycho-neurosis established, certified: he suffers delusions about The Brain.
Therefore I no longer find the cause of a neurosis in the past, but in the present.
In this, as in the previous case, the familial constellation proves to be by far the stronger; the narrow field vouchsafed by a neurosis is all that remains for the display of individuality.
So many of them seemed so insignificant, even so normal, that at most one could regard them as just providing the opportunity for the neurosis to appear.
The real ground of the neurosis is, in many cases, the inability to recognise the work that is waiting for them, of helping to build up a new civilisation.
The psychological determination of a neurosis is only partially due to an early infantile predisposition; it is due to a certain actual cause as well.
A neurosis is not really originated by infantile sexual phantasies and the same must be said of the sexualism of neurotic phantasy in general.
Beyond that there is no suggestion, otherwise the treatment of neurosis would be extremely simple, for we should only need to suggest health.
In spite of the fact that Freud's theory of neurosis has been worked out in great detail, it cannot be said to be, on the whole, very clear or easily accessible.
My altered view concerning the theory of neurosis does not change the procedure of psychoanalysis.
It is hard, but essential, for the sufferer from an occupation neurosis to abandon frantic efforts at combining treatment with continuance of labor.
In taking up the special types predisposed to the nervousness of the housewife it is to be emphasized that conditions may bring about the neurosis in the normal housewife.
But if independent experience and a non-domestic nature happen to reside in the same woman, then the neurosis appears in full bloom.
Though not perhaps completely relevant to the nervousness of the housewife, it is not without some point to touch on the "neurosis of the engaged.
And I have noticed that the very worst cases of neurosis of the housewife come in the early thirties, in women previously beautiful or extraordinarily attractive.
In the history of the worst cases of the housewife's neurosisone finds previously existing trouble, though, as I have before this emphasized, the neurosis may develop in the previously normal.
This divided view is particularly the attitude of women and becomes part of the neurosis of the housewife.
What are the difficulties confronting the partners which impede happiness and especially which bring the neurosis of the housewife?
We may divide the difficulties as follows from the standpoint of the neurosis of the housewife: 1.
The very worst cases of housewife neurosis are seen in such mothers; the most profound interference with mood, emotion, purpose, and energy results.
It is a main thesis of this book that the neurosis of the housewife has a large part of its origin in the increasing desires of women, in their demands for a fuller, more varied life than that afforded by the lot of the housewife.
Nevertheless, there are groups of women who, because of their make-up or constitution, acquire the neurosis much more easily and much more intensely than do the normal women.
In many cases I have traced the source of the housewife's neurosis to the care and worry furnished by one child.
The third type predisposed to the neurosis of the housewife is the overemotional woman.
As it is very necessary to keep up a clear distinction between these two processes, let the one be called neurosis and the other psychosis.
When the gamekeeper was first trained to his work, every step in the process of neurosis was accompanied by a corresponding step in that of psychosis, or nearly so.
Her daughter Jeanne was far from strong, having inherited much of the hereditary neurosis of her mother's family, along with a consumptive tendency from that of her father.
Heredity of a form of neurosis developing into idiocy.
Adelaide's original neurosis had by this time become more pronounced, and she ultimately became insane.
Heredity of a form of neurosis developing into mysticism.
She inherited much of the neurosis of her mother's family along with a consumptive tendency derived from her father, and from an early age had been subject to fits and other nervous attacks.
Heredity of a form of neurosis developing into genius.
A neurosiscausing rise or fall of a body's temperature.
Later researches tend to show that this neurosis is one controlling nutritive tissue change.
Hyperesthesia (or increased sensitiveness) is a starvationneurosis occurring especially in unrecognised scurvy.
Tobacco, therefore, in its influence on the paternal and maternal organism, exhausts the nervous system so that an acquired neurosis results in such a way as to be transmissible.
In other words, the neurasthenia of the ancestor becomes the neurosis of the descendant.
First avoid exaggerating hereditary predisposition when serious neurosishas occurred in the parental line.
Psychasthenia is a neurosis or psychoneurosis similar to neurasthenia, characterized by an exhaustion of the nervous system, also by weakness of the will, overscrupulousness, fear, and a feeling of the unreality of things.
Neurosis is a functional disease of the nervous system.
In some exceptional cases a genuine neurosis or psychosis may develop.
Indeed, it may be taken as a recognized fact, among the more advanced students of nervous diseases, that hereditary neurosis is an important antecedent of neuralgia, in at least a very large number of instances.
This antimurder neurosis in a man eminently suited for the art of killing would, the psychiatrist said, inevitably lead to Barrent's destruction.
We're all in favor of citizens with a neurosis against murder.
This represents the most familiar form of cardiac neurosis and may, of course, be due to such substances as tobacco, or coffee, or tea, where these are taken in excess.
One of the most annoying intestinal troubles due to a neurosis is the passage of air from the intestines, or in some people a rumbling through them, which is distinctly of neurotic origin.
Often, too, there is a delay of several days or sometimes weeks after the accident before the neurosis declares itself.
A further stage of this cardiacneurosis is the missing of beats.
The neurosis known as nervous croup, due to a spasm of the vocal cords, occurs oftenest in this class of children and is an associated phenomenon to that of night terrors.
Besides in a neurosis there always seems to be a hypersensitiveness of the nerves involved that may simulate the tenderness of neuritis.
There are many cases of painful conditions in the limbs where it becomes difficult to diagnose between a neurosis and a neuritis.
The pain of a gastric neurosis may, indeed, so simulate the gastric crises of locomotor ataxia as to make what is only a case of hysteria seem beyond doubt one of locomotor ataxic.
Apparently nervous control is lost and then the secretory neurosis manifests itself sometimes in conjunction with painful or motor affections.
The case is interesting as an example of the extent to which an abdominal psycho-neurosis may simulate a ruptured appendix.
As in dreams and in the neurosis this self feeling is frequently though thinly disguised, and I am of the opinion that with the crowd the mechanisms of this disguise are less subtle.
These systems differ from those of the neurosis in that the former are less idiosyncratic, but they undoubtedly perform much the same function.
Many symbolic acts of the person afflicted with compulsion neurosis show this same trait of substitution.
The neurosis goes back to some organic defect or other cause of childish humiliation.
Knowledge of theneurosis here, as elsewhere, serves to throw light on certain thought processes of people who are considered normal.
Now we have seen that the neurosis is but one path of escape from this conflict of self with the imperatives and abstract ideas through which social control is exercised.
Besides the primary aim of expressing repression by a symbolic representation, Freud admits a 'secondary function' of the neurosis by which the patient may derive some advantage from the disease.
Whoever has had a pronounced case of neurosis in his immediate environment knows all that can be "effected" by a neurosis.
The 'secondary function' of this neurosis is plain: the patient succeeded in keeping away from machinery all the time the pain lasted, and his anxiety symptoms were powerful enough to lead to his removal to another kind of work.
