Neurosis Quotes & Sayings
These neurosis quotes and neurosis sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. - Sigmund Freud
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 Stephen Szasz
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. - Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. - Paul Johannes Tillich
Devout believers are safe-guarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of building a personal one. - Sigmund Freud
The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear. - Abraham H. Maslow
Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among. - Alfred Adler
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. - Erich Fromm