As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity.
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Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in 'Jurgen' that 'to do what you always have done' and 'what is expected of you' are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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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.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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National isolation breeds national neurosis.
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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.
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis
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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.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
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Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
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