"National isolation breeds national neurosis."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on Isolation
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"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."

Szasz, Thomas on Doubt
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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."

Trilling, Lionel on Neurosis
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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?"

Proust, Marcel on Neurosis
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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."

Freud, Sigmund on Belief
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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."

Freud, Sigmund on Neurosis
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"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

Freud, Sigmund on Neurosis
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."

Miller, Henry on Knowledge
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"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."

Reik, Theodor on Psychiatry
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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

Jung, Carl on Mind
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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."

Mumford, Lewis on Industry
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