A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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.
I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
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.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.