Neurosis Sayings & Quotes
These neurosis sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes 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
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. - William Styron
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. - Sigmund Freud
There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone. - Alfred Adler
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. - Carl Gustav Jung
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
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