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Tag Name "Neurosis" (95)

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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
Albert Ellis
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
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Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
Carl Jung
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Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
Carl Jung
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.
Sigmund Freud
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
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Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Carl Jung
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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
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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton Sapirstein
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
Edward Abbey
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
Norman O. Brown
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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
Ethan Hawke
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...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
Hermann Hesse
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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.
James Agee
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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
Alan Watts
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Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.
James Hollis
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The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
Albert Ellis
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In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.
Jim Piddock
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
Anais Nin
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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
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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.
Anatole France
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A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
Anish Kapoor
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